Cyrille Rigaud
Jean-Cyrille Rigaud (28 January 1750 – 29 January 1824) was a French poet, playwright and medical doctor from Occitania. Rigaud was born in Montpellier thrn in Languedoc. Raised by his father, who was a librarian, he studied in Geneva.
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Cyrille Rigaud
- Name
- Jean-Cyrille Rigaud
- Born
- 28 January 1750
- Birthplace
- Montpellier, Languedoc, France
- Died
- 29 January 1824 (aged 74)
- Place of death
- Occitania, France
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French · Occitan
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Cyrille Rigaud (1750 – 1824) is described as a writer in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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The birth of Cyrille Rigaud is recorded in 1750, and the death in 1824.
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In his youth, he won a prize awarded by the Académie des Jeux floraux.
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• Name — Jean-Cyrille Rigaud • Born — 28 January 1750 • Birthplace — Montpellier, Languedoc, France • Died — 29 January 1824 (aged 74) • Place of death — Occitania, France • Occupation — Poet
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• 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 Henry Smeathman, Paris, De La Rochelle, 1786.
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.
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