Louis de Cahusac

Louis de Cahusac was an 18th-century French playwright, librettist, and Freemason. He is most famous for his work with the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. He provided the libretti for several of Rameau's operas, namely Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Zaïs, Naïs, Zoroastre, La naissance d'Osiris, and Anacréon. He is also credited with writing the libretto of Rameau's final work, Les Boréades. Cahusac contributed to the Encyclopédie and was the lover of Marie Fel.
In 1754, he published La Danse ancienne et moderne ou Traité historique de la danse.
Among Rameau's librettists, he was the one whose collaboration lasted the longest.
Cahusac's one-act comic play Zeneïde was performed in 1743. He was part of the circle of the art collector Comte de Caylus and the actress Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault. In their 1745 collection Le Recueil de ces Messieurs, the story "Double Jeu" was penned by Cahusac. Under the title "Double Game," it is available in an English translation by, published by Obscure Publications and available at .