Claude Parfaict
{{Short description|French theatre historian (c.1701–1777)}}
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Claude Parfaict, (Paris, c.1701 – 26 June 1777) was a French theatre historian.
Career
François Parfaict's younger brother, Claude, had the same passion for the theatre as his brother. Claude's most notable works were collaborations with François, including the Histoire du théâtre françois depuis son origine jusqu’à présent (15 volumes, 1734–1749)[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001791182 Histoire du théatre françois depuis son origine jusqu'à présent (1845–1849 reprint)] at Hathitrust. and the Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris (7 volumes, 1756).Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002241077 (1756)] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008654118? 1767] editions at Hathitrust. He also undertook on his own a Dramaturgie générale, ou Dictionnaire dramatique universel, a project that he did not implement.
Through protection by Madame de Pompadour, Claude Parfaict obtained a twelve-hundred-livres pension from which he benefited until his death.
The {{Ill|Chevalier du Coudray|qid= Q109832797|short=1}}, who had the Lettre au public, sur la mort de MM. de Crébillon (fils), Gresset, et Parfaict printed in 1777, later added an essay against the actors, entitled Il est temps de parler, and said it was by Parfaict. Nothing proves its authenticity and reading that piece raises suspicion that Coudray composed it himself.
But the Lettre d'Hippocrate sur la prétendue folie de Démocrite, was indeed translated from Greek by Claude Parfaict, 1780, in-12.
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Sources
- Joseph-François Michaud, Louis-Gabriel Michaud, {{Interlanguage link multi|Référence:Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes (Michaud)|fr}}, Paris, Michaud frères, 1811 edition: vol. 32 (1822), (p. 563-4); 1843 edition: [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51672r/f138.item.r=.langEN vol. 32, p. 133].
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