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Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville (3 April 1746 – 1 February 1805) was a French
Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville
on Data.bnf.fr Clergy from Le Havre 1746 births 1805 deaths French science fiction writers Writers from Le Havre 18th-century French male writers 18th-century French novelists 18th-century French philosophers 18th-century French poets French translators Latin–French translators Spanish–French translators Italian–French translators 18th-century French translators 1800s suicides {{France-translator-stub
Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville (3 April 1746 – 1 February 1805) was a French writer
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who wrote a seminal work of fantasy
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literature: '' Le Dernier Homme'' (''The Last Man'') (1805). This was the first modern novel to depict the end of the world.
The son of an army staff officer, de Grainville was born in Le Havre
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and was destined for the priesthood, like his brother, who became Bishop of Cahors
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cahors (Latin: ''Dioecesis Cadurcensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Cahors'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the whole of the department of Lot.
In the begi ...
. After attending school in Caen, he attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand
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in Paris. De Grainville was ordained a priest in 1766 but left the priesthood during the French Revolution. He committed suicide at Amiens
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in 1805 and his novel was published posthumously.
References
Bibliography
* * * Jean Gillet, « Du dernier au premier homme : Le brouillage des signes dans l’épopée de Grainville », ''Formes modernes de la poésie épique : nouvelles approches, '' éd. et intro. par Judith Labarthe, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2004, (p. 113-27). * Morton D. Paley, « ''Le Dernier Homme'' : the French Revolution as the failure of typology », ''Mosaic'', hiver 1991, n°24 (1), (p. 67-76).External links
Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville
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