Antoine de Laurès

Antoine de Laurès (30 November 1708, Gignac, Hérault – 12 January 1779, Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright from Languedoc.

A Writer, translator into French of Pharsalia by Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), and author of La fête de Cythère, a one-act opera created on 19 November 1753 at the Château de Berny. He lived in the Château de Gignac. He authored poems, theatre plays, operas and tragedies ; he left a correspondence with Voltaire.