Antoine de Laurès


Antoine de Laurès was an 18th-century French poet and playwright from Languedoc.
He was a writer, translator into French of Pharsalia by Lucan, 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.

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