MANGENOT (Lewis), a canon of the temple at Paris, where he was born A. D. 1694, and died in 1768 at the age of 74. He was a social poet, and an amiable man. But although lively and agreeable in his conversation, his character leaned somewhat towards cynical misanthropy. Of this we may judge from the following verses, written on a little parlour which he had erected in a garden dependent on his benefice:
Sans inquiétude, sans peine,
Je jouis dans ces lieux du destin le plus beau;
Les Dieux m'ont accordé l'Amor de Diogène,
Et mes faibles talens m'ont valu ses bienfaits.
His Poems were published at Amsterdam in 1776. This collection contains two elogues full of nature, simplicity, and elegance; fables, some of which are well composed; tales, which are by far too licentious; moral reflections; sentences; madrigals, &c. &c.