Jacques Cazotte (1720-1792) wrote
La Patte du Chat
(1741);
Mille et une Fadaises
(1742);
Observations sur la lettre de Rousseau au sujet de la Musique Française
(1754); and other works.
Le Diable Amoureux
appeared in 1772. Cazotte escaped the September Massacres at the Abbaye in 1792, through the heroism of his daughter, but was executed on the twenty-fifth of the same month.