Jean-Baptiste Radet was a French vaudevillist

Comédie en vaudeville

The Comédie en vaudeville was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened though lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville songs.-Evolution:...

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Prior to the French Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

, he worked in the library of the duchesse de Villeroy, allowing him to indulge his literary tastes. He had already had success with several plays at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique

Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique

The theatre was rebuilt to plans by the architects Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Jean-François-Joseph Lecointe on the boulevard Saint-Martin, at the corner of rue de Bondy...

 and Théâtre-Italien (Opéra-Comique), when he founded the Théâtre du Vaudeville

Théâtre du Vaudeville

The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles....

 with his friend Pierre-Yves Barré

Pierre-Yves Barré

Pierre-Yves Barré was a French vaudevillist and song-writer.-Life:He began life as a lawyer to the French parliament, then court clerk in Pau, but as the nephew of the chansonnier Pierre Laujon moved more and more towards a life in the theatre...

. Notable among his plays are :

• Renaud d'Ast (1787)
• La Chaste Suzanne (1793)
• Gaspard l'avisé
• La Maison en loterie.

External links

• His plays and their 18th century productions on CESAR

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