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....
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one act, created at Versailles in 1745 by François Rebel to a libretto by François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif. In March 1753 the ballet was revived and...
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A few acres of snow (redirect from Quelques arpents de neige)
instead of Lisbon and Mequines. This letter from Voltaire to François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif (1687–1770), written at Monrion, near Lausanne, on March...
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Sudhin Ghose, and Moncrif's Cats, a translation by Reginald Bretnor of the 18th century French writer François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif's 1727 work, Histoire...
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Laujon and Charles-Simon Favart, (parody of Zélindor by François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif) 1757: Le Nouvelliste dupé, one-act opéra comique 1762:...
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lyrique en 5 actes / livret de Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, terminé par François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif ; musique de Pascale Colasse, reprise par...
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of the day, including Diderot, Voltaire, d'Alembert and François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, with whom he also corresponded regularly. After the construction...
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Les Chats, the first known book about cats, written by François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif in 1727. He also wrote multiple articles about cats, always...
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Gresset, Pierre de Marivaux, François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, Alexis Piron, Claude Henri de Fuzée de Voisenon,...
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Diderot, Voltaire, d'Alembert and François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, with whom he also corresponded regularly. Monsieur de La Vallière was also created...
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parody of Zelindor by François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, Théâtre italien de Paris, 23 March 1756: L'Amour impromptu, parodie de l'acte d'Eglé dans...
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Turin, Royer went to Paris in 1725, and in 1734 became maître de musique des enfants de France, responsible for the musical education of the children...
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Charles King, musician and composer (died 1748) François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, librettist (died 1770) March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer (born...
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Les Mille et un jours (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
une heures (1733) and Les Mille et une soirées (1749); François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif's Les Mille et une faveurs (1716); Antoine Hamilton's Fleur...
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Lavau, 1679–1694, ecclesiastic François Lefebvre de Caumartin, 1694–1733, ecclesiastic François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, 1733–1770, poet, musician...
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Octave Uzanne (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
previously unpublished works by authors including Paradis Moncrif, Benserade, Caylus, Besenval, the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire. He founded the Société des...
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