Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
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Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (13 February 1707 – 12 April 1777), called Crébillon fils or Crébillon le Gai (Crébillon the Gay) to distinguish him from his father,[1] was a French novelist.
Born in
The publication of Tanzaï et Néadarné, histoire japonaise (1734), which contained thinly veiled attacks on the
Around 1744 he entered into a romantic liaison with Lady Henrietta Maria Stafford, daughter of a Jacobite chamberlain, and they were married in 1748.[3] A son was born in 1746 and died in 1750. Despite financial hardship, they lived together until her death in 1755. Meanwhile, he published La Nuit et le moment (1745), Ah! quel conte! and Les Heureux Orphelins (1754). Inheriting nothing from Henriette, he was forced to sell his large library in 1757 and eventually found steady income as a royal censor (like his father) in 1759. In 1768 and 1772 he published his last two novels, Lettres de la duchesse de *** au duc de *** and Lettres athéniennes.
Works
- Le Sylphe ou Songe de Madame de R***. Écrit par elle-même à Madame de S*** (1730) (full text in French on Gallica) (The Sylph, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: ISBN 978-1-95539-213-6, 2021)
- Lettres de la marquise de M*** au comte de R*** (1732)
- Tanzaï et Néadarné (incorrectly known as L'Écumoire, histoire japonaise) (1734) (full text in French on Gallica)
- Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit ou Mémoires de M. de Meilcour (1736–1738)
- Le Sopha, conte moral (1742) (full text in French on Gallica)
- Le dialogue des morts (1745)
- Les amours de Zéokinisul, roi des Kofirans (1746) (authorship disputed)
- Ah quel conte ! Conte politique et astronomique (1754) (full text in French on Gallica)
- Les Heureux Orphelins, histoire imitée de l'anglais (1754)
- La Nuit et le moment ou les matines de Cythère : dialogue (1755) (full text in French on Gallica)
- Le Hasard du coin du feu. Dialogue moral (1763) (full text in French on Gallica)
- Lettres de la Duchesse de *** au duc de *** (1768) (full text in French on Gallica)
- Lettres athéniennes. Extraites du porte-feuille d'Alcibiade (1771) (full text in French on Gallica)
Recent editions
- Standard edition is Œuvres complètes, éd. Jean Sgard, 4 vols., Paris: Classiques Garnier, 1999-2002.
- Lettres de la marquise de M*** au comte de R***, Paris, Desjonquères, 1990.
- Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit, Paris: GF-Flammarion, 1985.
- Le Sopha, Paris, Desjonquères, 1984.
- La Nuit et le moment et Le Hasard du coin du feu, Paris, Desjonquères, 1983.
- La Nuit et le moment, Livre de Poche Classique, 2003.
- Les Heureux Orphelins, Paris, Desjonquères, 1995.
References
- ^ Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel (1965). The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756. The Story of Civilization. Vol. IX. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 60.
- ^ a b Carole Dornier, "Orient romanesque et satire de la religion: Claude Crébillon, Tanzaï et Néadarné et Le Sopha," Eighteenth-Century Fiction Vol. 11: Iss. 4, Article 1 (1999) [1]
- ISBN 0-7190-0884-0, p.105
- Jean Sgard, Crébillon fils, le libertin moraliste, Paris: Desjonquères, 2002.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 389.