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Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (
February 13,
1707 -
April 12,
1777), was a
French novelist.
Born in
Paris, he was the son of a famous tragedian,
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon. He received a
Jesuit education at the elite school
Louis-le-grand. Early on he composed various light works, including plays for the Italian Theatre in Paris, and published a short tale called
Le Sylphe in 1730. From 1729 to 1739 he participated in a series of dinners called "Le Caveau" (named after the cabaret where they were held) with other artists, including
Alexis Piron,
Charles Collé, and Charles Duclos.
The publication of
Tanzaï et Neadarne, histoire japonaise (1734), which contained veiled attacks on the
Papal bull Unigenitus, the
cardinal de Rohan and others, landed him briefly in the prison at Vincennes. His novel
Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit was published in 1735 and was although he continued to edit it in 1738, it was never finished. Publication of
Le Sopha in 1742 forced him into exile from Paris, which lasted several months.
Around 1744 he entered into a romantic liaison with Lady Henrietta Maria Stafford, daughter of a Jacobite chamberlain, and they were married in 1748. A son born in 1746 died in 1750. Despite financial hardship, they lived harmoniously until her death in 1755. Meanwhile, he published
La Nuit et le moment (1745),
Ah! quel conte! and
Les Heureux Orphelins (1754). Inheriting nothing from Henriette, he was forced to sell his large library in 1757 and eventually found steady income as a royal censor (like his father) in 1759. In 1768 and 1772 he published his last two novels,
Lettres de la duchesse de *** au duc de *** and
Lettres athéniennes.
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