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{{Short description|French actor, writer and playwright}}
'''Adrien-Thomas Perdou de Subligny''' (1636–1696) was a 17th-century [[Theatre in France|French actor]], writer and playwright.
A lawyer at the [[Parlement of Paris]], he composed several comedies including ''La Folle Querelle ou la Critique d'Andromaque'' (1668) and ''Le Désespoir extravagant'' (1670), a play [[Jean Racine|Racine]] attributed to [[Molière]], after which they definitively ended up their relations.
He also wrote:
* ''La Muse dauphine'' (1667-1668),
* ''La Fausse Clélie ou histoire françoise galante et comique'', a satire of [[Madeleine de Scudéry|Mademoiselle de Scudéry]]'s novels (1671) whose composition prefigured some of the novelistic process [[Robert Challe]] resorted to in his ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Les Illustres Françaises|fr}}'' published in [[1713 in literature|1713]].
His daughter [[Marie-Thérèse de Subligny|Marie-Thérèse]] was one of the great dancers of the [[Opéra de Paris|Académie royale de musique]] at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries.
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