Henri-Joseph Dulaurens

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,<ref>Oxford Reference Retrieved 18 October 2017.</ref> born at Douai, the son of the regimental surgeon Jean Joseph Laurent and his wife Marie Josephe Menon.<ref>Certificate of birth and baptism (in French) Retrieved 18 October 2017.</ref> He was author of such libertine works as Le compère Matthieu,<ref>David Coward: "Explanatory Notes" in: Denis Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist, Oxford World's Classics series (Oxford, UK: OUP), 1999, p. 257.</ref> 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.<ref>Bartleby Retrieved 18 October 2017.</ref>