Claude Parfaict

Claude's most notable works were collaborations with François, including the Histoire du théâtre françois depuis son origine jusqu’à présent (15 volumes, 1734–1749)[1] and the Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris (7 volumes, 1756).

[2] He also undertook on his own a Dramaturgie générale, ou Dictionnaire dramatique universel, a project that he did not implement.

Through protection by Madame de Pompadour, Claude Parfaict obtained a twelve-hundred-livres pension from which he benefited until his death.

The Chevalier du Coudray [d], who had the Lettre au public, sur la mort de MM.

But the Lettre d'Hippocrate sur la prétendue folie de Démocrite, was indeed translated from Greek by Claude Parfaict, 1780, in-12.