Daniel-Paul Chappuzeau de Baugé

Daniel-Paul Chappuzeau de Baugé, born in Lyon – died ca. 1739, was a French civil servant and an opera librettist of the 18th century.

The son of a minister of the Protestant religion, Chappuzeau abjured calvinism and took the little collar before leaving the ecclesiastical habit. He then tried to writing, in particular by giving the lyrics of Coronis, pastorale héroïque, presented by the Académie royale de musique, on 23 March 1691, to music composed by Theobaldo di Gatti.

After getting married, he was admitted by the credit of his wife's family, in several sub-farms, which brought him a considerable fortune to help him acquire a King's secretary office, in which he was received on 18 September 1693.

Daniel-Paul was related to Samuel Chappuzeau. Daniel-Paul's father was Jacques Chappuzeau, sieur de Baugé, who abjured Calvinism in 1685. Jacques was the son of Jehan Chappuzeau, Samuel's uncle. Daniel-Paul's family married into the French and Belgian nobility, and there are many living descendants.