Jacques Cazotte

Japanese: カゾット - かぞっと（英語表記）Jacques Cazotte

1719‐92
French novelist. After studying law in his birthplace of Dijon, he went to Paris and worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of the Navy, and later served as a naval inspector in the overseas colony of Martinique in the Antilles (1747-60). After returning to France, he became a landowner in the small village of Piery, 140 km northeast of Paris, and devoted himself to writing. Just after the Revolution of 1789, he was nominated by the villagers to become mayor, but was executed for treason because he did not hide his support for the royalists. The fantastical style seen in his early twenties, such as Cat's Paw (1741) and A Thousand and One Idle Tales (1742), was joined by a mystical tendency that deepened with age, and this style became even more evident in his later prose poems Olivier (1763) and The Imposter Nobleman (1767).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1719‐92
フランスの小説家。出生地ディジョンで法律を修めた後，パリに出て，海軍省に文官として勤務，やがて海外植民地アンティル諸島のマルティニク島で海務監察官を務める(1747‐60)。帰国後パリの北東140kmの小村ピエリの地主として，文筆に専念。1789年の大革命直後，村民に推され村長となるが，王党派支持の態度を隠さなかったため反逆罪で処刑された。20代初期の《猫の足》(1741)，《千一無駄話》(1742)にみられた幻想的作風は，年と共に深まる神秘主義的傾向も加わり，その後の散文詩《オリビエ》(1763)，《にわか貴族》(1767)などのなかでいよいよ顕著になる。

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