Antoine de Laurès, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antoine de Laurès

French poet

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1708

Place of Birth: Hérault, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 12-Jan-1779

Profession: poet, dramaturge

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Antoine de Laurès (30 November 1708, Gignac, Hérault – 12 January 1779, 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.