Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron

Born in Péronne on December 19, 1706, and dead in Paris on September 16, 1760, Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron was a French man of letters known for a turbulent, independent life. Sources describe him as a traveler across Europe and a difficult, provocative figure who often lived on the edges of polite society.

He is remembered for works such as Le Cosmopolite ou le Citoyen du monde, Margot la ravaudeuse, and La Henriade travestie. His writing is usually linked to satire, irreverence, and libertine fiction, with a style shaped by disillusion, mockery, and a taste for upsetting respectable opinion.

The Bibliothèque nationale de France presents him as a solitary and scandalous adventurer, and that reputation helps explain why he still stands out among minor 18th-century authors. Even when he is treated as a secondary literary figure, his work offers a vivid glimpse of the sharper, more unruly side of the French Enlightenment.