Jean-Baptiste Radet (20 January 1752,

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

- 17 March 1830,

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) was a French vaudevillist. Prior to the

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, 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 The Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in ...

and Théâtre-Italien (

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), when he founded the

Théâtre du Vaudeville The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company 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. Af ...

with his friend Pierre-Yves Barré. Notable among his plays are : * ''Renaud d'Ast'' (1787) * ''La Chaste Suzanne'' (1793) * ''Gaspard l'avisé'' * ''La Maison en loterie''.

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External links

His plays and their 18th century productions on CESAR
{{DEFAULTSORT:Radet, Jean-Baptiste 1752 births 1830 deaths Writers from Dijon 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights