Henri Joseph Du Laurens (sometimes ''Laurens'' or ''Dulaurens'', original name Henri Joseph Laurent, 1719–1793 or 1797) was a French unfrocked trinitarian monk, satirical poet and novelist, born at

Douai Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, D ...

, the son of the regimental surgeon Jean Joseph Laurent and his wife Marie Josephe Menon. He was author of such libertine works as ''Le compère Matthieu'', ''Imirce, ou la fille de la nature'' and ''L'Arrétin moderne''. He may also have written ''

Candide, Part II ''Candide, or Optimism — Part II'' is an apocryphal picaresque novel, possibly written by Thorel de Campigneulles (1737–1809) or Henri Joseph Du Laurens (1719–1797), published in 1760. '' Candide'' was written by Voltaire and had been pu ...

''. He died at Mariembourg in the

French First Republic In the history of France, the First Republic (french: Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (french: République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 ...

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1719 births 1797 deaths People from Douai 18th-century French novelists French male novelists Trinitarians 18th-century French male writers {{France-novelist-stub