Augustin-Louis, marquis de Ximénès[1] (28 February 1728, Paris – 1 June 1817) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright.
Born in a family from the Kingdom of Aragon, he began his career in the army, where he joined the "Grey Musketeers" (mousquetaires gris), and later the gendarmes of French Flanders.
The second, Épicaris, ou la Mort de Néron, was hissed to the bitter end and had only one performance.
Voltaire nevertheless consented to receive him again a few years later, on condition that he would sign for him a pamphlet against Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
It is to be found in his poem L'Ère des Français, published in 1793, where there is that verse: Let us attack perfidious Albion in her waters !