Simon Tyssot de Patot
Simon Tyssot de Patot (1655–1738) was a French writer and poet during the
Works
In Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé [Voyages And Adventures of Jacques Massé], published in 1714 (imprinted 1710), Tyssot de Patot dispatched his heroes to a
In his 1720 La Vie, les Aventures et le Voyage de Groenland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mésange [The Life, Adventures & Trip To Greenland of the Rev. Father Pierre de Mesange], Tyssot de Patot introduced the concept of a
Tyssot de Patot described how his protagonists discover a hidden, underground kingdom located near the North Pole. That kingdom is inhabited by the descendants of African colonists who had left their homeland four thousand years earlier. This proto-Pellucidar is lit by a mysterious fire ball and is inhabited by small man-bat creatures. The novel also featured the character of the Wandering Jew.
Sources
- Jonathan Israel (2001) Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity
- A. Roosenberg (1972) Tyssot de Patot and his work 1655-1738, the Hague (International archives of the history of ideas 47)
External links
- Works by Simon Tyssot de Patot at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Simon Tyssot de Patot at Internet Archive
- Portrait of Tyssot
- (in French) Gallica has works by Tyssot in pdf and tiff format
- Simon Tyssot de Patot at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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