Joseph Aude (10 December 1755 – 5 October 1841) was a familiar of Necker and Buffon whose biography he wrote as well as a comédie en vaudeville about his marriage,[1] presented at the Société littéraire et scientifique d'Apt.
Aude Joseph is considered an important author of the traveling theater of the early nineteenth, thanks to his Cadet Rousselle.
[2] He made his literary debut in 1776, with Fête des Muses, an à-propos in verse played at the Château de Versailles before the king and the court.
[3] He met Buffon at the Jardin du Roi, where chevalier de Mouchy, of the House of Noailles, a novelist and correspondent of Voltaire, had led him.
He was tied with Dorvigny, creator of the character Jocrisse [fr], and with Brunet, his favorite actor and had the honor of being played by Talma in 1790.