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,Oxford Reference Retrieved 18 October 2017. born at Douai, the son of the regimental surgeon Jean Joseph Laurent and his wife Marie Josephe Menon.Certificate of birth and baptism (in French) Retrieved 18 October 2017. He was author of such libertine works as Le compère Matthieu,David Coward: "Explanatory Notes" in: Denis Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist, Oxford World's Classics series (Oxford, UK: OUP), 1999, p. 257. 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.Bartleby Retrieved 18 October 2017.
Translations The only complete translation of any of Dulaurens' works is by Dr. Jon M. Fox: Imirce, Or A Daughter of Nature: First Complete English Translation. Annotated. 7000 Islands Publishing, 2026. .
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Du Laur (in French) Imirce, Or A Daughter of Nature: First Complete English Translation References