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 , 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.

Sources[]

•  Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). "Radet (J. B)". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). 3. p. 1577.

External links[]

• His plays and their 18th century productions on CESAR