Jean-Baptiste Radet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French playwright
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Place of Birth: Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Jean-Baptiste Radet
- Jean-Baptiste Radet (20 January 1752, Dijon - 17 March 1830, Paris) was a French vaudevillist. Prior to the French Revolution, 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 and Théâtre-Italien (Opéra-Comique), when he founded the Théâtre du Vaudeville 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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