Dulaurens

(Henri Joseph). French satirist, b. Douay, 27 March, 1719. He was brought up in a convent, and made a priest 12 Nov. 1727. Published a satire against the Jesuits, 1761, he was compelled to fly to Holland, where he lived in poverty. He edited L’Evangile de la Raison , a collection of anti-Christian tracts by Voltaire and others, and wrote L’Anti pap is me révelé in 1767. He was in that year condemned to perpetual imprisonment for heresy, and shut in the convent of Mariabaum, where he died 1797. Dulaurens was caustic, cynical and vivacious. He is also credited with the Portfolios of a Philosopher , mostly taken from the Analysis of Bayle, Cologne, 1770.