Antoine de Laurès
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Born30 November 1708
Gignac, Hérault, France
Died12 January 1779 (aged 70)
Paris, France
OccupationsPoet and playwright
Antoine de Laurès | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 November 1708 Gignac, Hérault, France |
| Died | 12 January 1779 (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Occupations | 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.
