François Gacon

François Gacon , known as “the Poet without make-up”, born with Lyon the February 16th 1667 and dead the November 15th 1725 with Muzzle, is a satirical Poète French.

Oratorien, it is known for its satires against Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Houdar of the Mound, Boileau, Bossuet, Voltaire and much of others. Jean-Pierre Niceron said of him:

It paraissoit no work on the theater, either comedy, or opera which the Poet without Make-up did not release an epigram or against the author, or the part, often even before it had been represented. Finally always ready to attack and to defend themselves, it mingled indistinctly with all the literary arguments with its time.

Publications

Apology for Mr. Despréaux, or New satyrs against the women (1695)
Poëte without make-up, or satirical Speeches in worms (1696)
Anti-Rousseau (1712)
Odes of Anacréon and Sapho in Francois, worms by the poet without make-up (1712)
Essays on the works of Mister of the Mound. First essay, or general Idea of the works of this author, drawn from the foreword of its reflections on criticism. Second essay, on an author of poetic posed by this author; and on the speech of Diomede with Agamemnon, censured by same the (1715) Text in line
Homère avenged, or Answer to Mr. of the Mound on Iliade (1715). Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1971.
satirical History of the life and the works of Mr. Rousseau, in worms like in prose (1716)
the intercepted satirical Newspaper, or Apology for Mr. Arrouet of Voltaire and Mr. Houdart of the Mound (1719)
the Secretary of the Parnassus about the tragedy of Ines of Castro; and not involved subscriptions (1723-1724)

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