Antoine de Laurès

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.

Works 1749: Épître à Madame la Marquise de Pompadour 1751: Épître au Roy sur l'établissement de l'École royale militaire 1769: Thomire, tragedy. 1771: La Fausse Statue, comedy 1775: Ode sur le rétablissement du Parlement which won the extraordinary prize proposed by the Académie des Jeux Floraux in Toulouse.