Adrien-Thomas Perdou de Subligny (1636–1696) was a 17th-century French actor, writer and playwright. A lawyer at the

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, he composed several comedies including ''La Folle Querelle ou la Critique d'Andromaque'' (1668) and ''Le Désespoir extravagant'' (1670), a play Racine attributed to

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, after which they definitively ended up their relations. He also wrote: * ''La Muse dauphine'' (1667-1668), * ''La Fausse Clélie ou histoire françoise galante et comique'', a satire of Mademoiselle de Scudéry's novels (1671) whose composition prefigured some of the novelistic process Robert Challe resorted to in his ' published in

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. His daughter Marie-Thérèse was one of the great dancers of the

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at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries.

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