Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon the younger

(1707-1777)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de, 1707-1777 LBT ID: ClCrebi1777 VIAF ID: 24600044 LOC ID: n50017130	B/BAP: 1707-02-13 DIED: 1777-04-12
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French libertine novelist, author of Le Sopha (1742) for which he spent time in the Bastille.
REFERENCES TO Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon the younger: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Samuel Rogers Found 1: ¶ 10 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 14 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 82 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 28 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XXII Found 1: ¶ 28