Denis Carolet was one of the most prolific authors of the Théâtres de la Foire in Paris in the first half of the 18th century. He is credited with a hundred comedies, parodies and comic operas, written alone or in collaboration with other authors. However, almost nothing is known about his biography, except that he was the son of a prosecutor of the Chamber of Accounts, and even his first name is not certain. The first play attributed to him is an adaptation of Molière's Le Médecin Malgré Lui for Bertrand's puppets, in 1715 (See Françoise Rubellin, Atys burlesque. Montpellier: Espaces 34, 2011, p. 195). From 1721 to his death in 1739, this "tireless writer" (Claude et François Parfaict, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des spectacles de la Foire, Paris: Brisson, 1743, p. 134) composed new plays almost every year. A selection of them was published (Le Théâtre de la Foire ou l'Opéra comique, tome IX. Paris: Prault fils, 1734).