Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron

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Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron (born December 19, 1706 in Péronne , Département Somme , † September 16, 1760 in Paris ) was a French man of letters and writer.

Live and act

Monbron first served in the Garde du Corps , and later became literary. A police report described him as a shameless character whose father was a postmaster from Péronne. He had a brother who was employed by the tax authorities. As a former member of the Guard, he later became a valet to His Majesty's, but where he was fired. He then stayed at embassies at various European courts and then returned to Paris. He traveled through large parts of Western Europe and was called the prototype of a bohème writer ( une vie de bohème ).

Title page of Le Cosmopolite ou le Citoïen du Monde by Fougeret de Monbron ( 1750 )

He translated from English Fanny Hill by John Cleland with the French title of the edition La Fille de Joie ( 1751 ).

In 1757, in the second year of the Seven Years' War (also known as the Third Silesian War), he wrote an anonymous pamphlet with the fictitious place of publication à Minorique under the title Préservatif contre l'anglomanie , which appeared again in 1762 under the title L'Anti-Anglais . It is an anti- British propaganda font, in which Francophone Anglophile authors were also attacked.

Works (selection), translations

  • Le Cosmopolite ou le Citoyen du monde. Suivi de la Capitale des Gaules ou la Nouvelle Babylone , introduction by Raymond Trousson, Bordeaux, Ducros, (1970)
  • Le Canapé couleur de feu: histoire galante , Toulouse, Ombres, 2000 ISBN 978-2-8414-2121-3
  • Margot la ravaudeuse, Le Canapé couleur de feu (1741), Ed. Catriona Seth, Paris, Le Monde et Classiques Garnier, (2010)
  • Le Cosmopolite ou le Citoyen du Monde, L'univers est une espèce de livre dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu que son pays ( 1750 ), Ed. Édouard Langille, Londres, Modern Humanities Research Association , (2010) ISBN 978-1-9073-2204-4
  • La Henriade travestie (1745)
  • Margot la ravaudeuse (1750 or 1753)
  • Préservatif contre l'anglomanie (1757)
  • La Capitale des Gaules ou la Nouvelle Babylone (1759)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Christof Kraus: English constitution and political thinking in the Ancien Régime: 1689 to 1789. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag (2006), ISBN 3-486-57908-8 , p. 228.
  2. ↑ Biography of the presentation of a police report
personal data
SURNAME Fougeret de Monbron, Louis-Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fougeret de Monbron, Louis Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Péronne , Somme department
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1760
Place of death Paris