Antoine de Laurès

Antoine de Laurès
Born	(1708-11-30)30 November 1708 Gignac, Hérault
Died	12 January 1779(1779-01-12) (aged 70) Paris
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Poet and playwright

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: 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 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

• Antoine de Laurès on data.bnf.fr