Cyrille Rigaud

Jean-Cyrille Rigaud (28 January 1750 – 29 January 1824) was a French poet, playwright and medical doctor from Occitania.

Rigaud was born in Montpellier thrn in Languedoc. Raised by his father, who was a librarian, he studied in Geneva. In his youth, he won a prize awarded by the Académie des Jeux floraux.

Publications Éloge de Roucher, Montpellier, 1807, in-8°. Épître à MM. les étudiants en médecine de la Faculté de Montpellier, Montpellier, de l'impr. de J. Martel le jeune, 1823, in-8° Pouesias patouesas, Mounpeïé, Renaud, 1806, in-18. Poésies diverses, with Auguste Rigaud, Montpellier, de l'impr. de C.-J. Tournel, 1821, in-12 de 138 (contains fables, several speeches, including the Éloge de Roucher, read at the Académie de Montpellier in 1813, and inserted in the collection of that Société.) Pouésias patouèsas de Cyrilla Rigaud émbé edouquas péças d'Augusta Rigaud et dé différens doutvrs, Mounpéïé, Renaud, 1821, in-12.

Translations Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de quelques insectes, connus sous les noms de termites, ou fourmis blanches : et accompagné de figures gravées en taille-douce by Henry Smeathman, Paris, De La Rochelle, 1786.