# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-de-cahusac
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:36:59.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-de-cahusac"
name: "Louis de Cahusac"
slug: "louis-de-cahusac"
description: "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 (1747), Zaïs (1748), Naïs (1749), Zoroastre, La naissance d'Osiris (1754), 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."
tagline: "French writer (1706-1759)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cahusac_-_Trait%C3%A9_-_tom_1_(titre).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1706-04-06"
deathDate: "1759-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.39
  momentum:             1.637426900584795
  historical:           7.207164000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3703407"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Cahusac"
    title: "Louis de Cahusac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Cahusac"
    title: "Louis de Cahusac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Cahusac"
    title: "Louis de Cahusac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Cahusac"
    title: "Louis de Cahusac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Cahusac"
    title: "Louis de Cahusac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Cahusac"
    title: "Louis de Cahusac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8e80ce73-4216-4625-97da-fbddd6b6f600"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325083"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump