FOUGERET DE MONBRON: AVVENTURIERO LIBERTINO NEL SECOLO DEI LUMI
FOUGERET DE MONBRON: LIBERTINE ADVENTURER IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Summary/Abstract: French literary history has widely analyzed the importance of the most famous writers, celebrated in cultural awake characterizing the Eighteenth-Century. Besides those certainly relevant personalities, it is necessary considering other persons of letters who have been unfairly forgotten because of their bad reputation. There are, in particular, libertine authors (Fougeret de Monbron, Nerciat and Chevrier), obliged to wander in Europe not only because of scandal, caused by their works, but also because of their personality which differs from social conventions of the time.So, we have decided to consider Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron (1706-1760)’s adventurous spirit. Born in Péronne in 1706 in a rich family, the young man shows soon a strong intolerance face to social rules. Then, he chooses to try a dissolute life, considered like an open challenge to all forms of authorities. After have search for the world truth though the strict contact with bad girls and men wandering in Paris, his voyager spirit pushes Fougeret de Monbron to go in 1742 to England, the first stop-over in a series of long travels which will be a constant of his life. The libertine writer will have, in fact, the possibility to visit Netherlands, actual Turkey, Italy (Rome, Venice, Bologna), Frederic II’s court in Berlin. He goes across Europe from Western sides (Spain and Portugal) to his Eastern borders (Russia).

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