Louis de Cahusac
Louis de Cahusac was born on April 6, 1706. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Louis de Cahusac
Louis de Cahusac (6 April 1706 – 22 June 1759) was an 18th-century French playwright, librettist, and Freemason. He is most famous for his work with the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He provided the libretti for several of Rameau's operas, namely Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747), Zaïs (1748), Naïs (1749), Zoroastre (1749; revised 1756), La naissance d'Osiris (1754), and Anacréon (the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754). He is also credited with writing the libretto of Rameau's final work, Les Boréades (c. 1763). Cahusac contributed to the Encyclopédie and was the lover of…