Adrien-Thomas Perdou de Subligny
Adrien-Thomas Perdou de Subligny was a 17th-century French actor, writer and playwright.
A lawyer at the Parlement of Paris, he composed several comedies including La Folle Querelle ou la Critique d'Andromaque and Le Désespoir extravagant, a play Racine attributed to Molière, after which they definitively ended up their relations.
He also wrote:La Muse dauphine,La Fausse Clélie ou histoire françoise galante et comique, a satire of Mademoiselle de Scudéry's novels whose composition prefigured some of the novelistic process Robert Challe resorted to in his published in 1713.
His daughter Marie-Thérèse was one of the great dancers of the Académie royale de musique at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries.