Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, sieur de Langlade, was an 18th-century French novelist and playwright born in Cahors, Quercy in 1662 and died 30 September 1756.
Royal censor, he authored a biography of Molière. He was wrongly attributed some works by Marguerite de Lussan.
Works Librettos 1706: Polyxène et Pirrhus by Pascal Collasse 1710: Diomède by Toussaint Bertin de la Doué 1723: Pirithoüs by Jean-Joseph Mouret 1726: Pirame et Thisbé by François Francoeur and François Rebel 1735: Scanderberg by François Francoeur and François Rebel 1741: Nitétis by Charles-Louis Mion
Other 1727: Hippalque, prince scythe 1728: Amosis, prince égyptien 1734: Mémoire sur la vie et les ouvrages de Molière, in Œuvres de Molière, in-4°, tome VII
Bibliography Cardinal Georges Grente (dir.), Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le XVIIIe siècle, nlle. édition revue et mise à jour sous la direction de François Moureau, Paris, Fayard, 1995.
External links His plays and their presentations on CÉSAR Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre on data.bnf.fr