Antoine de Laurès
{{Short description|French poet and playwright (1708–1779)}}
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| death_place = Paris
| nationality = French
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Antoine de Laurès (30 November 1708, in Gignac, Hérault – 12 January 1779, in Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright from Languedoc.
He was a writer, translator into French of Pharsalia by Lucan (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.
Works
- 1749: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5620061p Épître à Madame la Marquise de Pompadour]
- 1751: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5620011s Épître au Roy sur l'établissement de l'École royale militaire]
- 1769: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5734493s Thomire], tragedy.
- 1771: [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5734253k La Fausse Statue], comedy
- 1775: Ode sur le rétablissement du Parlement which won the extraordinary prize proposed by the Académie des Jeux Floraux 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
- [http://data.bnf.fr/13010321/antoine_de_laures/ Antoine de Laurès] on data.bnf.fr
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Category:18th-century French poets
Category:18th-century French male writers