Antoine de Laroque

Antoine de Laroque[1] (1672, Marseille – 3 October 1744, Paris) was an 18th-century French librettist.

When Laroque was constable of the Royal Guard, a cannonball smashed his leg during the battle of Malplaquet, and they had to cut it off above the knee.

[2] When Dufresny died in October 1724, Laroque was left alone to administer the review and d’Antoine also participated.

Abbott Pellegrin under the name Laroque gave the theater his tragedy Medée et Jason, which was even printed several times under his own name from 1716 until 1760.

In 1745, Gersaint, the famous art dealer of the Pont Notre-Dame, wrote a catalog of chevalier Laroque's cabinet.