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François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif (1687, Paris – 19 November 1770, Paris) was a French writer and poet, of a family originally of Scots origin. He was appointed historiographer royal to Louis XV of France. His parody of owlishly pedantic scholarship, Histoire des chats, and the protection of the house of Orléans gained him entry to the Académie française. Maurepas records in his memoirs that at the induction ceremony, a member let loose a cat he had secreted in his pocket: the cat miaowed, the Académiciens miaowed and the serious oration dissolved in laughter.
Works
Les Aventures de Zeloïde et d'Amanzarifdine, contes indiens, 1715
L'Oracle de Delphes, verse comedy in 3 acts, Comédie-Française, 1722; adapted from La Fontaine's Le Mari confesseur, it was interdicted at the fourth performance, its satire against paganism appearing to be applicable to the Christian religion.
Histoire des Chats : dissertation sur la prééminence des chats dans la société, sur les autres animaux d'Égypte, sur les distinctions et privilèges dont ils ont joui personnellement, 1727
Les Abdérites, verse comedy in 1 act, 1732
L'Empire de l'Amour, ballet en vers libres, 1733
Essais sur la Necessité et sur les Moyens de Plaire, 1738
Les Ames rivales, novel 1738
Œuvres mêlées, 1743
Zélindor, roi des Sylphes, ballet libretto, music by François Francœur and François Rebel, presented at Versailles 17 March 1745
Poésies chrétiennes composées par ordre de la Reine, 1747
Almasis, ballet, 1748
Ismène, pastorale héroïque, 1748
Observations pour servir à l'histoire des gens de lettres qui ont vécu dans ce siècle, 1751
La Sybille, ballet music by Antoine Dauvergne presented at Versailles, 13 November 1753
Enée et Lavinie (with Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle), lyric tragedy in 5 actst music by Antoine Dauvergne, presented at the Académie royale de musique, 14 February 1758
Les Fêtes d'Euterpe (with Charles-Simon Favart), opera-ballet, music by Antoine Dauvergne, presented at the Académie royale de musique, 8 August 1758
