Académie Royale de Danse other documents, however, it is clear the number is correctly stated. The identity of the omitted thirteenth member has long been a point of disagreement among dance historians. Gaston Vuillier forwarded Beauchamp as the missing member, while Régine Astier (Kunzel) unabashedly claimed it was Henri Prévost. Both were wrong. The original document signed by King Louis XIV was preserved in the French National Archives, and upon its close inspection in 1997 by scholar Maureen Needham, the thirteenth name was revealed to be “Molière.” Not to be confused with Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-73), the famous playwright of King Louis’ reign responsible
Jean-Baptiste d'Huez were all destroyed in 1792, during the French Revolution. Huez was one of the main artists whose work was included in the collection of the Comédie-Française at the end of the 18th century. Others were Jean-Joseph Foucou, Simon-Louis Boizot, Augustin Pajou and Pierre-François Berruer. Huez became a teacher himself. One of his pupils was Jean-Louis Couasnon (1747–1802). Huez's teacher, Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne (1704–1778), started a group "Poetry crying on the bust of Mr. Crebillon" to commemorate the playwright Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, but did not complete it. It was moved to the antiques room in the Louvre in 1778, where