François Parfaict, (10 May 1698 in Paris – 25 October 1753) was an 18th-century French theatre historian.
Their most notable works were collaborations, including Histoire du théâtre françois depuis son origine jusqu’à présent (15 volumes, 1734-1749)[1] and Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris (7 volumes, 1756).
This is a very large repository of information, but less accurate and less methodical than the Dictionnaire by Léris which, however, has only one volume.
Voltaire himself wrote the article about him in the Parfaict brothers' Dictionnaire.
François Parfaict also left a manuscript for a Histoire de l’Opéra, which didn't appear, and a lyric tragedy entitled Atrée.