Antoine Jean Sticotti, called ''Toni'' or ''Fabio'', (1715–1772) was an 18th-century French comedian and playwright born in the Friuli area of Northern Italy. He was the son of Fabio Sticotti and Ursule Astori. Sticotti arrived in

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with his parents in 1716, made his debut aged 14 at the Théâtre-Italien in 1729 in the parts of

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, and retired in 1759 to move to the service of

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in Prussia. On 13 August 1739, Sticotti married Marie Claude Duflos; three months before, Ursule, his mother, died.

Plays

* ''Cybelle amoureuse'' * ''Roland, parody by Panard and Sticotti premiered by the Comédiens italiens ordinaires du Roy, 20 January 1744'', Paris, Prault, 1744 * ''L'Impromptu des acteurs'' * ''Les Ennuis de Thalie'' (with Pannard) * ''Les François du Port-Mahon'' (with Lachassaigne) * ''Les Faux Devins'' (with

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) * ''Le Carnaval d'été'' (parody, with de Morambert) * ''Amadis'' (parody, with de Morambert) * '' Garrick ou les Auteurs anglais'' * ''Complimens pour la closture et pour l'ouverture e la Comédie Italienne le 6 avril 1737', Paris, Veuve Delormel, 1737 * ''Dictionnaire des gens du monde, historique, littéraire, critique, moral, physique (...)'', 1770. * ''Dictionnaire des passions, des vertus et des vices, ou Recueil des meilleurs morceaux de morale pratique, tirés des auteurs anciens et modernes, étrangers et nationaux'', Paris, Laporte, 1777 * ''Les Festes sincères, comédie en un acte et en vers au sujet de la convalescence du Roy, représentées par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du Roi, le 5 octobre 1744'', 1745 (with Panard) * ''Les Soupirs d'Euridice aux Champs Élisées'', 1770
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