François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif

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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

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
• La Fausse magie, prose comedy in 3 acts,
  Comédie Italienne
  , 1719
• L'Oracle de Delphes, verse comedy in 3 acts,
  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
• Erosine, pastorale héroïque, 1765

External links

• Les Chats/The Cats at the EX-Classics Project. Versions in both French and English; can be read online or downloaded in various formats.
• François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif on
  data.bnf.fr
• Francois-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif's Love of Cats
• Productions of his plays on CÉSAR