Jean-Cyrille Rigaud (28 January 1750 – 29 January 1824) was a French poet, playwright and doctor from

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. Rigaud was born in Montpellier. Raised by his father, who was a librarian, he studied in Geneva. In his youth, he won a prize awarded by the Académie des Jeux floraux.

Publications

* ''Éloge de Roucher'', Montpellier, 1807, in-8°. * ''Épître à MM. les étudiants en médecine de la Faculté de Montpellier'', Montpellier, de l'impr. de J. Martel le jeune, 1823, in-8° * ''Pouesias patouesas'', Mounpeïé, Renaud, 1806, in-18. * ''Poésies diverses'', with Auguste Rigaud, Montpellier, de l'impr. de C.-J. Tournel, 1821, in-12 de 138 (contains fables, several speeches, including the Éloge de Roucher, read at the Académie de Montpellier in 1813, and inserted in the collection of that Société.) * ''Pouésias patouèsas de Cyrilla Rigaud émbé edouquas péças d'Augusta Rigaud et dé différens doutvrs'', Mounpéïé, Renaud, 1821, in-12.

Translations

* ''Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de quelques insectes, connus sous les noms de termites, ou fourmis blanches : et accompagné de figures gravées en taille-douce'' by

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, Paris, De La Rochelle, 1786.

Sources

* Achille Chéreau, ''Le Parnasse médical français ou, Dictionnaire des médecins-poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes, morts ou vivants'', Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1874, (p. 477-478) * Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, ''La Grande encyclopédie : inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts'', t.28, Paris, Lamirault et cie, 1886, (p. 674). *

Joseph-François Michaud Joseph–François Michaud (19 June 1767 – 30 September 1839) was a French historian and publicist. Biography Michaud was born at either La Biolle or Albens in the Duchy of Savoy (then a part of the Holy Roman Empire and a possession of the Ki ...

Louis-Gabriel Michaud Louis-Gabriel Michaud (19 January 1773, Castle Richemont – 8 March 1858) was a French writer, historian, printer, and bookseller. He was notable as the compiler of ''Biographie Universelle'' (1811–). Life He became a lieutenant on 15 July ...

, ''Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne. Nouvelle édition'', t.36, Paris, C. Desplaces, 1863, (p. 23-24). * Joseph-Marie Quérard, ''La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants'', Paris, Firmin Didot père et fils, 1836, (p. 48).

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