Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Claude- Prosper de Jolyot Crébillon ( called Crébillon fils, born February 14, 1707 Paris, † April 12, 1777 in Paris) was a French author and son of the poet's tragedy Prosper Jolyot Crébillon ( Crébillon pére ).

Life and work

He was de Crébillon (1674-1762) and his wife Marie of Charlotte Péaget (approx. 1690-1711 ), daughter of a Parisian pharmacist born as the son of Prosper Crébillon Jolyot, Seigneur. He married on 23 April 1748 Henriette M. Stafford - Howard ( 1711-1755 ). The couple had a son the Madeleine Henry Jolyot Crébillon, but died at the age of four years.

He was best known for his satirical roman à clef Tanzaï et Néadarné ( Tanzai and Neadarne or The skimmers, 1734) the "moral tale " Le Sopha ( The Sofa, 1742) and the " moral dialogue " Le Hasard du coin du feu ( The game of chance by the fire, 1763). For his libertarian texts he had repeatedly suffered state repression, he was sentenced after the release of Tanzaï et Néadarné to several weeks of imprisonment in Vincennes; in response to Le Sopha he was banished from Paris. Crébillon enjoyed the patronage of Madame de Pompadour, he owed her the office of royal censor, Censure royale previously his father († 1762) had exercised. 1774 to 1776 he also served as Theaterzensor. Crebillon works were very well received in Germany the Enlightenment; some writings of Christoph Martin Wieland, including The Adventures of Don Sylvio of Rosalva ( 1764) and The Golden Mirror ( 1772) are influenced by him.

Output

Crébillon the Younger: The complete works in eight volumes. Following the London total output from 1777 and according to some manuscripts first printed / edited and introduced by Erich Loos. Translated into German by Erika Hönisch [ua ]. With an essay by Alain Bosquet on the illustrations of the issue, Propylaea -Verlag Berlin, 1968-1970