Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie

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Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie (c. 1730 – November 26, 1791) was a French writer born in Lamothe, Haute-Marne. He moved to Paris as a young man and spent the rest of his life there, working in literature. His works include Contes philosophiques et moraux (1765); Les Deux Ages du goût et du génie sous Louis XIV et sous Louis XV (1769), a compare-and-contrast work that sides with Louis XV; L'Espagne littéraire (1774); Eloge de Voltaire (1779); and Eloge de Montaigne (1781).