Ange-François Fariau (; 13 October 1747 – 8 December 1810) was a French poet and translation, translator. Fariau was born in Blois, the son of an advisor to the king. He studied in the Jesuit college of Blois, and later at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, Sainte-Barbe college in Paris. A protégé of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, Turgot, he went on to be a teacher in the Parisian school of rue Saint-Antoine, teaching grammar and later belles-lettres. He became well known for his translations of Ovid's works, especially Metamorphoses (poem), Metamorphoses. Fariau also penned his own odes and poems. In 1810 he was elected to l'Académie française, but died in Paris three months later after a fall.

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Biography from l'Académie française, in French

Works by Fariau
(WorldCat catalog) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fariau, Ange-Francois 1747 births 1810 deaths Writers from Blois French translators French poets Members of the Académie Française French male poets French male non-fiction writers 18th-century French translators