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
Barthélémy-Jean-Baptiste Sanadon Barthélémy-Jean-Baptiste Sanadon Bartholomew John the Baptist Sanadon, better known by the name of Jean-Baptiste Sanadon was a constitutional Catholic Bishop and a member of the revolutionary Convention. He was born in February 1729 in Evreux ( Eure ) and died on 9 February 1796 in Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques). Sanadon entered the Benedictine order and he was principal of the college of Pau, having been a professor of history and literature. In 1785, Sanadon published an essay on the nobility of the Basques, which he extracted from manuscripts of papers knight Jean Philippe de Bela. He was attracted to the ideas of