Jacques Cazotte

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Jacques Cazotte
Detail of portrait by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Detail of portrait by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
BornJacques Cazotte
17 October 1719
Dijon, France
Died25 September 1792(1792-09-25) (aged 72)
Paris, France
OccupationWriter
NationalityFrench
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Jacques Cazotte (French: [kazɔt]; 17 October 1719 – 25 September 1792) was a French author and a monarchist. He predicted the Reign of Terror and was guillotined shortly after.

Life

Born in

Jesuits
. Cazotte then worked for the French Ministry of the Marine and at the age of 27 he obtained a public office at Martinique. [1] It was not until his return to Paris in 1760 with the rank of commissioner-general that he made his public debut as an author. His first attempts, a mock romance and a coarse song, gained so much popularity, both in the Court and among the people, that he was encouraged to try something more ambitious. He accordingly produced his romance, Les Prouesses inimitables d'Ollivier, marquis d'Edesse.

Cazotte wrote a number of fantastic oriental tales, such as his children's fairy tale La patte du chat (The Cat's Paw, 1741) and the humorous Mille et une fadaises, Contes a dormir debout (The Thousand and One Follies, Tales to Sleep Upright 1742).

the Devil.[2]
The value of the story lies in the picturesque setting, and the skill with which its details are carried out.

Cazotte copy-edited, adapted, and expanded French translations of tales actually and supposedly belonging to the Thousand and One Nights provided to him by the Syrian priest

Dom Denis Chavis. These stories were published in Geneva in 1788–89, independently as Continuation des Mille et Une Nuits and, in the Cabinet des Fées anthology, as Suites des Mille et Une Nuits (1788–1789).[1][3][4]

Cazotte possessed extreme facility that he is said to have dashed off a seventh

monarchist".[1] Upon the discovery of some of his counter-revolutionary letters in August 1792, Cazotte was arrested. He escaped for a time through the efforts of his daughter but was guillotined
in September.

Writings

A complete edition of his work was published as the Œuvres badines et morales, historiques et philosophiques de Jacques Cazotte (4 vols, 1816–1817), though more than one collection appeared during his lifetime. Cazotte's work was an influence on later fantasy writers such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Charles Nodier, Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier.[5]

  • Prophetie de Cazotte (Reputed)
  • Ollivier, 1762.
  • Le Diable amoureux (The Devil in Love), 1772.
  • A Thousand and One Follies, and His Most Unlooked-for Lordship. Translated by Eric Sutton, with an introduction by Storm Jameson, 1927.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d The Arabian nights : A Companion. by Robert Irwin. London, Allen Lane, 1994,
    ISBN 0-7139-9105-4
    (pp. 260–5).
  2. ^ Wells Chamberlin, "Jacques Cazotte" in Supernatural Fiction Writers, edited by
    ISBN 0-684-17808-7
    (pp. 29–35).
  3. ISBN 0814332870
    (p. 34).
  4. ISBN 9004074287
    ).
  5. ^ Charlotte Trinquet, "Cazotte, Jacques" in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A–F edited by Donald Haase, Greenwood Publishing Group,
    ISBN 0-313-33441-2
    , (pp. 170–1)

References

Further reading

External links
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