Jean-François de Bastide

Jean-François de Bastide (15 July 1724, Marseille – 4 July 1798, Milan aged 73) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright.

The son of a magistrate from Provence, Bastide was a polygraph: he wrote novels (Histoire d'une religieuse par elle-même, "Bibliothèque universelle des romans", May 1786, 24 p. in-16), theatre plays, critics, and was also a journalist and a compilator. As a journalist, he published Le Nouveau spectateur (1758–60), Le Monde comme il est (1760–61),^[1] Journal de Bruxelles ou le Penseur (1766–67), etc. He also directed the "Bibliothèque universelle des romans" from 1779 to 1789.

As a playwright, he composed:

• 1749: Le Désenchantement inespéré
• 1762: L'Épreuve de la probité
• 1763: Les Caractères de la musique
• 1763: Les Deux talents, opéra comique presented at Comédie Italienne 11 August (music by chevalier d'Herbain)
• 1764: Le Jeune homme, comedy presented in Bordeaux
• 1766: Les Amants opposés, comedy presented in The Hague 11 March
• La Majorité, comedy presented the same day in the same theatre
• 1766: Le Soldat par amour, opéra comique presented in Brussel, at Théâtre de la Monnaie, 4 November (music by Pieter van Maldere and Ignaz Vitzthumb)
• Gésoncourt et Clémentine, tragedy presented the same day in the same theatre.
• La Petite-Maison, published in Contes de M. de Bastide, Paris, L. Cellot, 1763, II, 1, p. 47-88

• His plays and their presentations on CÉSAR
• La petite maison on Cairninfo