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CUAR (Suard) Jean Baptiste Antoine (15 I 1734, Besancon - 20 VII 1817, Paris) - French. musesand theater. critic and journalist. He published the Gazette litteraire de l'Europe and Gazette de France, published in the Journal de Paris and Mercure de France under the pseudonym L'Anonyme de Vaugirard. He was a censor drum. works. Patronized the novice A. Gretry. In the discussion that unfolded around the operas of K.V. Gluck, known as the “war of the Gluckists and the Pichchinists” (1777), he spoke (jointly with Abbot Arnault) as one of his main supporters against J. F. Lagarpe and F. Marmontel. He was close to encyclopedists, took part in the Essays on Old and New Music published by J. B. Labord (L'essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne de Laborde, v. 1-4, P., 1780) and Muses . dictionary of the “Methodical Encyclopedia” (Dictionnaire de musique de “l'Encyclopedie methodique”, P., 1791) and others. He founded the journal in Paris. "Le publiciste" (1800-10).From 1772 member, from 1803 secretary Franz. academy.