JACQUES See also:

• JACQUES CAZOTTE (1719-1792)

CAZOTTE (1719-1792)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• DIJON

Dijon, on the 17th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1719 . He was educated by the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits, and at twenty-seven he obtained a public See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office at See also:

• MARTINIQUE

Martinique, but it was not till his return to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 176o with the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general that he made a public See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance as an author . His first attempts, a See also:

• MOCK

mock See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, and a coarse See also:

• SONG

song, gained so much popularity, both in the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court and among the See also:

• PEOPLE

people, that he was encouraged to See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay something more ambitious . He accordingly produced his romance, See also:

• LES

Les Prouesses inimitables d'011ivier, See also:

• MARQUIS

marquis d'Edesse . He also wrote a number of fantastic See also:

• ORIENTAL

oriental tales, such as his Mille et une fadaises, Conies d dormir debout (1742) . His first success was with a " poem in twelve cantos, and in See also:

• PROSE

prose intermixed with See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, entitled 011ivier (2 vols., 1762), followed in 1771 by another romance, the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• IMPROMPTU (from in promptu, on the spur of the moment)

Impromptu . But the most popular of his See also:

• WORKS

works was the Diable amoureux (1772), a fantastic See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale in which the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero raises the See also:

• DEVIL (Gr. &a,3oXos, " slanderer," from &ctflisXX sty, to slander)

devil . The value of the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story lies in the picturesque setting, and the skill with which its details are carried out . See also:

• CAZOTTE, JACQUES (1719-1792)

Cazotte possessed extreme facility and is said to have turned off a seventh See also:

• CANTO (from the Lat. cantus, a song)

canto of See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire's Guerre civile de Geneve in a single See also:

• NIGHT

night . About 1775 Cazotte embraced the views of the See also:

• ILLUMINATI (Lat. illuminare)

Illuminati, declaring himself possessed of the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of prophecy . It was upon this fact that La Harpe based his famous jeu d'esprit, in which he represents Cazotte as prophesying the most See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute events of the Revolution . On the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of some of his letters in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1792, Cazotte was arrested; and though he escaped for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time through the love and courage of his daughter, he was executed on the 25th of the following See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month .

The only See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition is the U uvres badines et morales, historiques et philosophiques de Jacques Cazotte (4 vols., 1816-1817), though more than one collection appeared during his lifetime . An edition de luxe of the Diable amoureux was edited (1878) by A . J . Pons, and a selection of Cazotte's Contes, edited (188o) by See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

Octave Uzanne, is included in the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of Petits Conteurs du X VIIIe siecle . The best See also:

• NOTICE

notice of Cazotte is in the Illumines (1852) of See also:

• GERARD (c. 1040-1120)
• GERARD (d. I1o8)
• GERARD, ETIENNE MAURICE, COUNT (1773–1852)
• GERARD, FRANCOIS, BARON (1770-1837)
• GERARD, JEAN IGNACE ISIDORE (1803-1847)
• GERARD, JOHN (1545-1612)
• GERARD, or GIRARD, AUDRAN

Gerard de See also:

• NERVAL, GERARD

Nerval .