Jean Palaprat

Jean Palaprat was a French lawyer and playwrite. He was born in Toulouse in May 1650 and died in Paris on October 4, 1721. He mostly co-authored plays with David de Breuys. Their plays were published in Les Œuvres de théâtre de Messieurs Brueys et de Palaprat in 1755.

There is a short bio about de Bruyes and Palaprat at http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?booknr=359032590, and there is a book in German about him and de Breuys that can be read online at http://www.archive.org/stream/brueysundpalapra00kochuoft#page/10/mode/2up. Their play "Le Grondeur" is available on line at http://books.google.com/books?id=fX1JAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false.