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CAZOTTE, JACQUES (1719-1792)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 591 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CAZOTTE, JACQUES (1719-1792) , French author, was born at
Dijon
 , on the 17th of October 1719. He was educated by the
Jesuits
 , and at twenty-seven he obtained a public office at Martinique, but it was not till his return to Paris in 176o with the rank of
commissioner
 -general that he made a public
appearance
  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 essay something more ambitious. He accordingly produced his romance, Les Prouesses inimitables d'011ivier, marquis d'Edesse. He also wrote a number of fantastic 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
prose
  intermixed with verse, entitled 011ivier (2 vols., 1762), followed in 1771 by another romance, the Lord
Impromptu
 . But the most popular of his works was the Diable amoureux (1772), a fantastic tale in which the hero raises the devil. The value of the story lies in the picturesque setting, and the skill with which its details are carried out.
Cazotte
  possessed extreme facility and is said to have turned off a seventh
canto
  of Voltaire's Guerre civile de Geneve in a single night. About 1775
Cazotte
  embraced the views of the Illuminati, declaring himself possessed of the 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 minute events of the Revolution. On the discovery of some of his letters in August 1792, Cazotte was arrested; and though he escaped for a time through the love and courage of his daughter, he was executed on the 25th of the following month.
The only 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
Octave
  Uzanne, is included in the
series
  of Petits Conteurs du X VIIIe siecle. The best notice of Cazotte is in the Illumines (1852) of Gerard de Nerval.


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