Born in Paris, d ' Alembert was the illegitimate child of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery officer.

Under the influence of the Destouches family, at the age of twelve d ' Alembert entered the Jansenist Collège des Quatre-Nations ( the institution was also known under the name " Collège Mazarin ").

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches ( 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961 ).

The only child of Fernand Destouches and Marguerite-Louise-Céline Guilloux, he was born Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches in 1894 at Courbevoie, just outside Paris in the Seine département ( now Hauts-de-Seine ).

Admiral Destouches, who arrived in Newport, Rhode Island in July 1780 with a fleet with 5, 500 soldiers, was encouraged by Washington and French Lieutenant General Rochambeau to bring his fleet south, and launch a joint land-naval attack on Arnold's troops.

However, Destouches was reluctant to dispatch many ships, and only sent three in February.

Among her numerous lovers and benefactors was the Chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, by whom she had an illegitimate son, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.

The first work officially given that designation was Télémaque ( a parody of the opera by André Cardinal Destouches ), which was first performed by the Théâtre de la Foire Saint-Germain in 1715.

Philippe Néricault Destouches ( 9 April 1680 – 4 July 1754 ) was a French dramatist.

Destouches was born at Tours, in today's department of Indre-et-Loire.

André Cardinal Destouches ( sometimes called des Touches ) ( baptised 6 April 1672 – 7 February 1749 ) was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens.

Destouches ' opera Issé was performed for Louis XIV at the Trianon in 1697.

Under the Régence, as Destouches ' operas were revived at the Opéra, Destouches was able to purchase the terroir of La Vaudoire at Sartrouville, conveniently close to Paris.

Franz Seraph von Destouches ( 21 January 1772 – 9 December 1844 ) was a German composer.

* Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( 1894 – 1961 ) – pseudonym of Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches at " books and writers "

After a series of successful operas and the commencement of his successful collaboration with the librettist Pierre-Charles Roy, in 1713 the king appointed Destouches inspector general of the Académie Royale de Musique, at a stipend of 4000 livres a year ; later, in 1725 Louis XV would appoint him superintendent of chamber music for the Chambre du Roi, and then Director of the Académie.

The young Louis XV danced in Destouches ' ballet Les élémens at the Tuileries, 31 December 1721, and the aged Destouches led the musicians for his daughters ' masked ball on 13 January 1744.

With the beginning of the public Concerts Spirituels in Paris, Destouches performed his De Profundis ( 1725 ) and his cantata Sémélé ( 1728 ) and motet for large chorus O dulcis Jesu ( also 1728 ); Queen Maria Leszczyńska commanded Destouches to recreate the concert series at the Tuileries.

* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )

* April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist ( d. 1754 )

The chevalier Destouches left d ' Alembert an annuity of 1200 livres on his death in 1726.

* Jules Amédée Barbey d ' Aurevilly-Chevalier Destouches

* Louis-Camus Destouches, artillery officer and father of Jean le Rond d ' Alembert

On 15 June 1920 his wife gave birth to a daughter, Colette Destouches.

* Louis Destouches / Céline, a double imposture, a conference held on 22 May 1999 about Céline and Semmelweis

The most intimate of Handel's operas, written for a small cast, is based on Amadis de Grèce, a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte.

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When his father died in August 1694, André Cardinal added " Destouches " to his name in memory of his father's title, Seigneur des Touches et de Guilleville.

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de: Franz Seraph Destouches

* 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author ( b. 1680 )

* July 4 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist ( b. 1680 )

Destouches secretly paid for the education of Jean le Rond, but did not want his paternity officially recognized.

Destouches withdrew due to the damage sustained to his fleet, leaving Arbuthnot and the British fleet in control of the bay's mouth.

* Dramatist Philippe Néricault Destouches comes to London as an attaché to the French embassy.

Philippe Néricault Destouches.

After eleven years of diplomatic service, Destouches returned to the stage with the Philosophe marié ( 1727 ), followed in 1732 by Le Glorieux, a picture of the struggle then beginning between the old nobility and the wealthy parvenus who found their opportunity in the poverty of France.

Destouches wished to revive the comedy of character as understood by Molière, but he thought it desirable that the moral should be directly expressed.

) ( Louis-Ferdinand Destouches ) ( 1894 – 1961 ) Anti-Semitic writer.

Until 1705, La Maupin sang in new operas by Pascal Collasse, André Cardinal Destouches and André Campra.

In his early life he translated Destouches ' works ( 1754 ) and wrote satirical almanacs ( Borlanda impasticciata, Gran Zoroastro and Mal di Milza ) which scandalized the Milanese society.

David Kimbell compared in detail the treatments of the story by Handel and Destouches.