Henri-Joseph Du Laurens
Henri Joseph Du Laurens (sometimes Laurens or Dulaurens, original name Henri Joseph Laurent, 1719–1793 or 1797) was a French unfrocked Trinitarian friar, satirical poet and novelist, born in Douai, the son of the regimental surgeon Jean Joseph Laurent and his wife Marie Josephe Menon. He was author of such libertine works as Le compère Matthieu, Imirce, ou la fille de la nature and L'Arrétin moderne. He may also have written Candide, Part II. He died in Mariembourg in the French First Republic, now in Belgium.
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The only complete translation of any of Dulaurens' works is by Dr. Jon M. Fox: Imirce, Or A Daughter of Nature: First Complete English Translation. Annotated. 7000 Islands Publishing, 2026..
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Henri-Joseph Du Laurens / Sylvain Sauvage · University of Toronto, Internet Archive identifier: imirceoulafil00dula
Illustrations pour Imirce ou la Fille de la nature
Henri-Joseph Du Laurens / Sylvain Sauvage · University of Toronto, Internet Archive identifier: imirceoulafil00dula
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- 1.Oxford Reference Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- 2.Certificate of birth and baptism (in French) Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- 3.David Coward: "Explanatory Notes" in: Denis Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist, Oxford World's Classics series (Oxford, UK: OUP), 1999, p. 257.
- 4.Bartleby Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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