Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon

Admitted a lawyer at the Parlement of Paris in 1723, Meusnier de Querlon was an employee from 1727 to 1735 at the Bibliothèque du Roi.

However, Jean-François de La Harpe represented Querlon in verbose having "flatly bourgeois or ridiculously burlesque style, with ads for books to buy or homes for sale."

We owe him Psaphion ou la Courtisane de Smyrne, novel (London; Paris, 1748, in-12°); le Roman du jour (Ibid.

He edited with notes, Lucrèce (1748; in-12°); Phèdre (1748, in-12°); Anacréon (1754, in-12+); De rerum natura (1754); l'Anthologie française by Monet (1765, 3 vol.

He was also attributed the libertine novel The Carmelite Extern Nun (Histoire de la tourière des carmélites in French).

1754 copy of " De rerum natura ," for which Meusnier de Querlon wrote the preface and provided notes