Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron

Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron , born in 1706 with Fibula and died in 1760, is a Man of letters French.

Large traveller, Fougeret de Monbron made profitable his voyages in all the Europe to write the Cosmopolitan or the Citizen of the World (1750). He states there this last maxim in Proverbe: “The universe is a species of book whose one read only the first page when one saw only his country”.

He also wrote, inter alia, Henriade disguised (Berlin, 1758, in-12), where he devoted himself to a parody almost towards by worms of the original, which is not without value and knew several editions.

He also left Satire S on Paris and the England.

He translated Fanny Hill of John Cleland.

One owes him of the Romance libertines like the Order hermaphrodite or the secrecies of the happiness to the Garden of Eden (Paris, NR. Marine, 1748) or the Settee color of fire , but it is especially with Margot ravaudeuse the (1750) that its name remains attached.

Modern editions

the Cosmopolitan or the Citizen of the world. Follow-up of the Capital of Gaules or the News Babylon , Intro. and notes by Raymond Thousson, Bordeaux, Ducros, 1970
the Settee color of fire: gallant history , Toulouse, Shades, 2000 ISBN 9782841421213

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 1321

Random links: