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Philippe Néricault Destouches
Philippe Néricault Destouches (9 April 1680 – 4 July 1754) was a French playwright who wrote 22 plays.
Biography.
Destouches was born at Tours, in today's department of Indre-et-Loire.
When he was nineteen years of age, he became secretary to M. de Puysieux, the French ambassador to Switzerland. In 1716 he was attached to the French embassy in London, where he remained for six years under abbé Dubois.
He later contracted a marriage with Dorothea Johnston
1674–1762) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
- (1680–1754) Philippe Néricault Destouches
- (1688–1763) Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
- (1692–1754) Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée
- (1694–1778) Voltaire
- (1709–1777) Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset
- (1713–1784) Denis Diderot
- (1732–1799) Pierre de Beaumarchais
- (1740–1814) Louis-Sébastien Mercier
- (1750–1794) Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine
- (1793–1843) Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne
- (1798–1855