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Henri Joseph Du Laurens (sometimes Laurens or Dulaurens, original name Henri Joseph Laurent, 1719–1793 or 1797) was a French unfrocked Trinitarian friar, satirical poet and novelist, born at Douai, the son of the regimental surgeon Jean Joseph Laurent and his wife Marie Josephe Menon. He was author of such libertine works as Le compère Matthieu, Imirce, ou la fille de la nature and L'Arrétin moderne. He may also have written Candide, Part II. He died at Mariembourg in the French First Republic, now in Belgium.

External links

• Works by or about Henri-Joseph Dulaurens at the Internet Archive
• Du Laur (in French)

References

1. Oxford Reference Retrieved 18 October 2017.
2. Certificate of birth and baptism (in French) Retrieved 18 October 2017.
3. David Coward: "Explanatory Notes" in: Denis Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist, Oxford World's Classics series (Oxford, UK: OUP), 1999, p. 257.
4. Bartleby Retrieved 18 October 2017.

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• People from Douai
• Writers from Nord (French department)
• 18th-century French novelists
• French male novelists
• Trinitarians
• 18th-century French male writers
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