Claude Parfaict

Claude Parfaict, (Paris, c.1701 – 26 June 1777) was an 18th-century French theatre historian.

François Parfaict's younger brother, Claude had for theatre the same passion as his brother. Claude's most notable works were collaborations with François, including ''Histoire du théâtre françois depuis son origine jusqu’à présent'' (15 volumes, 1734-1749) and ''Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris'' (7 volumes, 1756).''Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris'
(1756)
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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 , 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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* Joseph-François Michaud, Louis-Gabriel Michaud, ', Paris, Michaud frères, 1811 edition: vol. 32 (1822), (p. 563-4); 1843 edition
vol. 32, p. 133

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18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French translators
18th-century French historians
Theatre in France
Writers from Paris
Year of birth missing
1777 deaths