Family Name: Fougeret de Monbron
First Name: Louis-Charles
Birth Date: Fri, Dec 17, 1706
Birth Place: Péronne
Death Date: Wed, Sep 17, 1760
Death Place: Paris
Main places of activity:
Place From To
Versailles 1724 1737
Place From To
Paris 1738 1758
Personal info:
Career

He became "garde du corps du roi" in 1726, and left Versailles in 1730 only to come back five years later to buy an office as "valet de chambre ordinaire du roi". He sold his office in 1739.

He inherited a small fortune from his father and started travelling abroad in 1742, first to England then to numerous countries including Turkey and Russia.

He was arrested after a first attempt to publish Margot la Ravaudeuse in 1748 and forced into exile a year later (London). He was back in France in 1755 and immediately arrested and locked up in the Bastille. He was freed at the end of the same year and settled in Péronne for a while. He died in Paris in 1760.
Financial Situation

He really started writing when he inherited a small fortune on his father's death. After he sold his office as 'valet de chambre ordinaire du roi' in 1739, he never worked again.
Translations Other Works

secondary bibliography references

E. Boussuge, Situations de Fougeret de Monbron (1706-1760), Paris, Honoré Champion, 2010.

M. Prévost, R. d'Amat, et H. Tribout de Morembert, eds., Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, Paris, Letouzey et Ané, t. 14, 1979.

Maurice Saillet, préface of Margot la Ravaudeuse, Paris, Tchou, 1981.

S. Kleiman-Lafon, « The French Adventures of Fanny Hill », in Launching Fanny Hill : Essays on the Novel and its Influences, ed. by P. Fowler et A. Jackson, AMS Press, New York, 2004.

Translations

  • The chronicle of the Kings of England, writtent in the manner of the ancient Jewish historians, by Nathan ben Saadi, a priest of the Jews

  • Translation Title: Chronique des rois d'Angleterre écrite en anglais, selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs, par Nathan ben Saadi, prêtre de la même nation et traduite en françois dans le même stile.
  • Original Author: Robert Dodsley (Nathan ben Saadi)
  • Original title: The chronicle of the Kings of England, writtent in the manner of the ancient Jewish historians, by Nathan ben Saadi, a priest of the Jews
  • Publ. Year From: 1739 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Chronique des rois d'Angleterre écrite en anglais, selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs, par Nathan ben Saadi, prêtre de la même nation et traduite en françois dans le même stile.
  • Publisher: T. Cooper
  • Pub. Place: London
  • Pub. Date: 1742
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    Attributed to Fougeret de Monbron by Bossuge.

  • Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

  • Translation Title: La Fille de joye, ouvrage quintessencié de l'anglais.
  • Original Author: John Cleland
  • Original title: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
  • Publ. Year From: 1748 to:
  • lang: English
  • Note:

    First edition, published anonymously.
  • Translation: La Fille de joye, ouvrage quintessencié de l'anglais.
  • Publisher: Unknown
  • Pub. Place: Lampasque
  • Pub. Date: 1750
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    About this translation, see S. Kleiman-Lafon, « The French Adventures of Fanny Hill », in Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and its Influences, P. Fowler and A. Jackson (eds.), AMS Press, New York, 2004.

  • An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily in the years 1718, 1719 and 1720

  • Translation Title: L'histoire de l'expédition de l'amiral Byng dans la Sicile en 1718, 1719 et 1720
  • Original Author: Thomas Corbett
  • Original title: An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily in the years 1718, 1719 and 1720
  • Publ. Year From: 1738 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: L'histoire de l'expédition de l'amiral Byng dans la Sicile en 1718, 1719 et 1720
  • Publisher: Chez la Veuve Ganneau et Ballard Fils
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1743
  • Lang: French
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  • Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon