Antoine de Laurès
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.
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Antoine de Laurès
- Name
- Antoine de Laurès
- Born
- 30 November 1708
- Birthplace
- Gignac, Hérault, France
- Died
- 12 January 1779 30 November 1708
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Poet and playwright
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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He authored poems, theatre plays, operas and tragedies; he left a correspondence with Voltaire.
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• Name — Antoine de Laurès • Born — 30 November 1708 • Birthplace — Gignac, Hérault, France • Died — 12 January 1779 30 November 1708 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Poet and playwright
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• 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.
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- 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.
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