François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif
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Biography François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif (1687 - 1770)
French writer and poet
Also known as: Paradis de Moncrif.
Also called: F. A. Paradis de Moncrif.
Died on 19 nov 1770
Origin country France
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.
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