Bénigne Dujardin (1689, Paris – 1771?) was a French writer, historian and translator.
He was received
Master of Requests in 1722 but didn't carry this title in 1738, probably because he fell out of favor. He then devoted himself to literature under the pseudonym (de) Boispréaux and in particular to translation, in association with
Gottfried Sellius.
In response to criticism by
Fréron on his work, he published the Anti-feuilles, ou Lettres à madame de ***, on some judgments in the Année littéraire, in collaboration with Gottfried Sellius and
Jacques Rochette de La Morlière (Amsterdam, Le Juste et Paris, Quillau, 1754).
Anti-feuilles, ou Lettres à madame de ***, sur quelques jugemens portés dans l'Année littéraire, in collaboration with
Gottfried Sellius and
Jacques Rochette de La Morlière, Amsterdam, Le Juste; Paris, Quillau, vol. 1, 1754 (
Read online).
Le mariage de la raison avec l'esprit, one-act comedy in verse, Paris, Prault le Jeune, 1754, 32 p. (
Read online).
Avis des éditeurs des trois derniers volumes de l'Histoire générale des Provinces-Unies (prospectus), Pierre-Guillaume Simon,
Jean-Michel Papillon, Bénigne Dujardin and
Gottfried Sellius, Paris, chez P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, rue de la Harpe, à l'Hercule, 1770.
Translations
Petronius, Satyre, London (The Hague ?), J. Nourse, 1742, 2 vol.
La double beauté, novel, Cantorbury (i.e. Paris), 1754, in-12°. It is one episode from the Mémoires de
Martin Scriblerus by
Alexander Pope,
Bremen, 1748.
Sources
« Bénigne Dujardin » in Joseph Fr. Michaud, Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne Paris, L.-G. Michaud, 1837, suppl., vol. 63,
p. 94-95.