Jacques Rochette de La Morlière

Jacques Rochette de La Morlière

Jacques Rochette de La Morlière.
Born Charles-Jacques-Louis-Auguste Rochette de La Morlière
22 April 1719
Grenoble
Died 22 April 1785(1785-04-22) (aged 66)
Paris
Occupation Playwright

Charles-Jacques-Louis-Auguste Rochette de La Morlière, called "Le Chevalier" , (22 April 1719 – 9 February 1785) was an 18th-century French playwright.

Biography

An unscrupulous schemer, La Morlière first sought the support of the party of Voltaire, applauding the verse of the master, and when he found himself sufficiently established at café Procope, became an entrepreneur of success and dramatic falls. Surrounded by a paid gang, he moved to the parterre, giving the signal for applause for authors who had offered him some dinners or a few louis, and the signal for whistles against those from whom he had received nothing. In order to replace the whistle that the police did not always tolerate, he had imagine a sort of protracted yawn that produced a disastrous effect.

Believing himself master of the theater, La Morlière had the idea to use his means of action for his own account and wrote comedies but, despite all the efforts of his cabal, they fell, and with them his influence. Fréron, who he had attacked, gave him the final blow. Accused of baseness and cowardice and also of relations with the police, he was abandoned by everyone and ended his life in deep poverty.

He was among the regulars of Marie Anne Doublet's salon.

Works

His comedies in prose Le Gouverneur, three acts (1751), La Créole, one act (1754) and L’Amant déguisé, two acts (1758) seem not to have been printed.

In addition, he collaborated with the Anti-feuilles by Bénigne Dujardin.

Sources

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