Antoine de Laurès (30 November 1708, in
Gignac, Hérault
Gignac (; oc, Ginhac) is a commune in the Hérault ''département'' in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Population
Its inhabitants are called ''Gignacois''.
Sights
* Gignac Bridge over the river Hérault, completed 1810.
* Church of No ...
– 12 January 1779, in Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright from
Languedoc
The Province of Languedoc (; , ; oc, Lengadòc ) is a former province of France.
Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately ...
.
He was a writer, translator into French of ''
Pharsalia'' by
Lucan
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November 39 AD – 30 April 65 AD), better known in English as Lucan (), was a Roman poet, born in Corduba (modern-day Córdoba), in Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial ...
(Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), and author of ''La fête de Cythère'', a one-act opera created on 19 November 1753 at the Château de Berny. He lived in the Château de Gignac. He authored poems, theatre plays, operas and tragedies ; he left a correspondence with
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ...
.
Works
*1749
''Épître à Madame la Marquise de Pompadour''*1751
''Épître au Roy sur l'établissement de l'École royale militaire''*1769
''Thomire'' tragedy.
*1771
''La Fausse Statue'' comedy
*1775: ''Ode sur le rétablissement du Parlement'' which won the extraordinary prize proposed by the
Académie des Jeux Floraux
The Consistori del Gay Saber (; "Consistory of the Gay Science") was a poetic academy founded at Toulouse in 1323 to revive and perpetuate the lyric poetry of the troubadours.
Also known as the Acadèmia dels Jòcs Florals or Académie des Jeux ...
in Toulouse.
Bibliography
* ''Nécrologie des hommes célèbres''. 1780. (p. 198–250). Firmin-Didot. Nouvelle biographie générale. t. XXIX. Paris 1859.
* F. Baumes. ''Le chevalier Antoine de Laurès (1708–1779)''. ''La quinzaine''. 16 July 1906.
*
Régis de Saint-Jouan and Jacques Reilhan de Carnas. ''Généalogie de la famille de Laurès''. in Claude-Daniel de Laurès. ''Mémoire pour servir l’histoire de la ville de Gignac et de ses environs''. Arts et traditions rurales. 2004.
External links
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18th-century French poets
18th-century French male writers
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
1708 births
1779 deaths