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 Lislet Geoffroy Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy (also known as Geoffrey L'Islet) (23 August 1755 – 8 February 1836) was a French astronomer, botanist and cartographer. Lislet Geoffroy was born on August 23, 1755 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion and died on February 8, 1836 in Port-Louis (Mauritius). Lislet was the son of Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy a white, French engineer working in Mauritius (then called Ile de France) and a freed black slave from Guinea. Lislet's father had freed his mother in order to take her as his mistress, but because Lislet was illegitimate, he took the name of the place of his birth