“ VOISENON, CLAUDE HENRI DE FUZÉE, Abbé de (1708–75) , French dramatist and man of letters, was born at the château of Voisenon near Melun, on the 8th of July 1708. At the age of ten he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the boy to visit him. From this introduction dated a friendship that lasted for fifty years. Voisenon made his début as a dramatist with L’Heureuse ressemblance in 1728, followed in 1739 by a three-act comedy l’École du monde at the Théâtre français. ”

“ He lived on terms of the closest intimacy with Charles Simon Favart and his wife. His pen was always at the service of any of his friends, and it was generally supposed, though on insufficient grounds, that he had a considerable share in Favart’s most successful operas. ”