Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière

Alexandre Jean Joseph Le Riche de La Pouplinière (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ʒɑ̃ ʒozɛf lə ʁiʃ də la puplinjɛʁ]), sometimes also written Popelinière ou Poupelinière (Paris, 1693 – 5 December 1762) was an immensely wealthy fermier général, the only son of his father, Alexandre Le Riche (1663–1735), seigneur of Courgains, (Anjou) and Brétignolles (Touraine), likewise a fermier général.

He kept a private orchestra, "the best that was known in those days", according to Jean-François Marmontel ("… le meilleur concert de musique qui fût connu dans ce temps-là.

Voltaire was obliged to his generosity, and Maurice Quentin de La Tour and Carle van Loo both painted his portrait.

In his private theatre he mounted his own comedies, one of them being Daïra (1760); Marmontel found them mediocre, but expressed with such taste and so well written that it was not excessive flattery to applaud them.

In the following year, composer François-Joseph Gossec was obliged to appear in court to obtain restitution of some of his own scores, which had been in La Pouplinière's possession when he died.