…He was born to a minor nobleman in Normandy, France, and traveled to Canada as a young man to participate in the colonial struggle between England and France. He then moved to the New York Colony, where he obtained citizenship in 1765, married an American woman, and began a peaceful and idyllic agricultural life on a farm he purchased. Based on his experiences and knowledge, he wrote Letters from an American Farmer (1782), in which he posed the famous question, “Americans, who are these new men?” and asserted the image of Americans as “new men” living in a new environment with new ideals and social systems, becoming the starting point for subsequent writings on America. In 1778, in the midst of the chaos of the American Revolution, he supported the royalists and returned to Europe, and his “American dream” was shattered for a time. However, after independence, he returned to America as French consul and worked hard to develop friendly relations between the United States and France. … *Some of the terminology used in "Letters from an American Farmer" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…フランスのノルマンディーの小貴族の子に生まれ,青年時代カナダに渡って,英仏の植民地抗争に加わったが,その後ニューヨーク植民地に移り,1765年市民権を取るとともに,アメリカ女性と結婚,買い求めた農園で,平和で牧歌的農耕生活を始めた。そうした自分の体験と見聞を基に《アメリカ農民の手紙》(1782)を書き,そこで〈アメリカ人,この新しい人間は何者か?〉という有名な問いを発し,新しい環境で新しい理念と社会制度に生きる〈新しい人間〉というアメリカ人像を主張することによって,この後繰り返し書かれるアメリカ論の原点となった。78年,独立革命の混乱のさなか,王党派を支持した彼はヨーロッパに戻り,彼の〈アメリカの夢〉はいったん破れることになるが,独立後は再びフランス領事として渡米し,米仏両国の友好関係の発展に尽力した。… ※「《アメリカ農民の手紙》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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