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Fagan
1702–1755
A lively figure of 18th-century French theater, this playwright built a career around quick, witty stage works for some of Paris’s best-known venues. He wrote around thirty plays, often mixing comedy with the playful spirit of opéra comique.
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La Pupille
by Fagan
About the author
Born in Paris on March 31, 1702, Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan was a French playwright also known as Fagan de Lugny. His family had Irish roots, and his father’s financial troubles after the collapse of John Law’s system pushed the family into more modest circumstances.
Fagan married young and later worked at the Parlement of Paris, but theater became his real calling. He went on to write roughly thirty plays, many of them staged at the Théâtre-Français, the Théâtre-Italien, and the fair theaters of Paris, where light comedies and musical entertainments drew enthusiastic audiences.
His works included titles such as La Grondeuse, La Pupille, and La Jalousie imprévue, and he also collaborated with other dramatists, including Charles-François Panard and Charles-Simon Favart. He died in Paris on April 28, 1755, at the age of 53.