Jean-Cyrille Rigaud (28 January 1750 – 29 January 1824) was a French poet, playwright and doctor from

Occitania Occitania is the historical region in Southern Europe where the Occitan language was historically spoken and where it is sometimes used as a second language. This cultural area roughly encompasses much of the southern third of France (except ...

. Rigaud was born in

Montpellier Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...

. Raised by his father, who was a librarian, he studied in Geneva. In his youth, he won a prize awarded by the Académie des Jeux floraux.

Publications

* ''Éloge de Roucher'', Montpellier, 1807, in-8°. * ''Épître à MM. les étudiants en médecine de la Faculté de Montpellier'', Montpellier, de l'impr. de J. Martel le jeune, 1823, in-8° * ''Pouesias patouesas'', Mounpeïé, Renaud, 1806, in-18. * ''Poésies diverses'', with Auguste Rigaud, Montpellier, de l'impr. de C.-J. Tournel, 1821, in-12 de 138 (contains fables, several speeches, including the Éloge de Roucher, read at the Académie de Montpellier in 1813, and inserted in the collection of that Société.) * ''Pouésias patouèsas de Cyrilla Rigaud émbé edouquas péças d'Augusta Rigaud et dé différens doutvrs'', Mounpéïé, Renaud, 1821, in-12.

Translations

* ''Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de quelques insectes, connus sous les noms de termites, ou fourmis blanches : et accompagné de figures gravées en taille-douce'' by Henry Smeathman, Paris, De La Rochelle, 1786.

Sources

* Achille Chéreau, ''Le Parnasse médical français ou, Dictionnaire des médecins-poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes, morts ou vivants'', Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1874, (p. 477-478) * Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, ''La Grande encyclopédie : inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts'', t.28, Paris, Lamirault et cie, 1886, (p. 674). * Joseph-François Michaud, Louis-Gabriel Michaud, ''Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne. Nouvelle édition'', t.36, Paris, C. Desplaces, 1863, (p. 23-24). * Joseph-Marie Quérard, ''La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants'', Paris, Firmin Didot père et fils, 1836, (p. 48).

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