Biography of the Autrey Counts

From the dictionnaire de Biographie francaise,
(Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ane, 1948), pp. 750-75.  .

AUTREY, (Henri-Jean-Baptiste Fabri De Moncaut, Count) apostolic writer 1723-1777 Originally from Bagnois, the Fabri of Languedoc have been known since the sixteenth century. At the end of the seventeenth century, Louis Fabri, the Count of Moncaut, governor of Besancon, constructed and estate at Autrey les Gray. His son and grandson were known under the name of Counts of Autrey. Henri-Jean Baptiste was born June 9, 1723 son of Henri, colonel in regiment of the la Sarre, and Marie-Therese Fleuriau d'Armenonville, daughter of _______________.
Henri Jean was a lieutenant in the regiment of the _________________ in Bourgogne, he left the regiment April 13, 1745. He retired to his estates and devoted himself to the struggle of the encyclopedists* and to the defense of the christian religion. This ancient cavalry officer was ill prepared to handle the _________ and his method of discussion was extremely weak. His arguments were sometimes unexpected.
In 1765 the Count of Autrey published a _____________, or new proposed method to the disbelieving by the abby of _____________ (1765) where he lent himself particularly to Diderot. The work being anonymous, they attributed it to Count d'Ales de Corbet, but Voltaire who since 1742, was friendly with the Countess of Autrey, (they saw through it - was probably the writer) ......  The next year, Autrey consulted a certain Mr. Boullanger, author of Disclosed Antiquity by Custom, wherein he opposed "The Justified Antiquity" (1776). Boullanger's book did not merit much honor; Autrey's refuting it enriched neither literature nor science, the refuter as well as the refuted ignoring the entire question. Two years later, he attached Voltaire himself in "The Quakers at their Brother V" ......letters more philosophical than.......on his religion and on his books (1768). If his arguments are infantile, the style of the work was not nearly brilliant. Voltaire did not react.   What was made of this in Paris (from this book) to prove geometrically original sin he wrote at Damilaville. The patriarche of Ferney took the trouble of writing to Autrey on 6 Sept. 1765, a very strange letter, totally about gastronomy. Voltaire's correspondence editors believed  they saw a long suite of ________________against the ceremonies of the Christian religion, but this interpretation is even more doubtful.   The Count of Autrey died 16 Oct. 1777. He had married Angelique Emilie Coste of Saint-supplix, with whom he had only one girl. He therefore was the last of the Counts of Autrey..
*encyclopedists - writers of a French encyclopedia (1751-80) who were identified with the Enlightment and advocated deism and scientific rationalism.
*rationalism - .The Count of Autrey died 16 Oct. 1777. He had married Angelique Emilie Coste of Saint-supplix, with whom he had only one girl. He therefore was the last of the Counts of Autrey .