Jacques Casotte was a poet, writer, mystic and diviner. He lived in France in the 18th century. He was a bright personality. extraordinary and quite popular. His novel "The Devil in Love" gave rise to many imitations, and the famous Prediction of Kazot caused a real shock in society.
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Jacques Cazot was born on October 7, 1719 in a respectable bourgeois family. After studying at a Jesuit college, he got a job in Paris at the Ministry of the Navy. At that time, in European society, and in culture, the fashion for everything mysterious and mystical reigned. Numerous Masonic lodges, Illuminati communities and occult sects arose. Kazot was an extremely impressionable person, prone to daydreaming, and even with a remarkable literary talent. His first works - graceful poems, romances, short stories and oriental tales - a continuation of the fairy tales "A Thousand and One Nights", were imbued with fantastic motives. This is how Charles Nodier, one of the founders of the genre of the French science fiction novel, who in childhood loved to hear his magical stories, describes Casota Charles Nodier: “To his extreme complacency,and shining on his handsome and cheerful face, to the gentle and meek expression of youthful blue eyes, to the soft attractiveness of his whole appearance, Mr. Kazot added the most precious talent of the world's best storyteller, both bizarre and naive, which at the same time seemed the purest truth due to the accuracy of the details and the most incredible fairy tale because of the miracles with which they abounded. Nature endowed him with a special gift to see things in a fantastic light. "Nature endowed him with a special gift to see things in a fantastic light. "Nature endowed him with a special gift to see things in a fantastic light."
Having risen to the rank of Commissioner of the Navy, Kazot was appointed inspector on the island of Martinique, where he proved himself very heroic - during the British attack on the colony, he developed a stormy activity and discovered his knowledge of military strategy. Thanks to this, the attack of the enemy was repulsed, despite the landing of the British. In a word, fate smiled at Kazot. On the island, he found family happiness: he married the daughter of the chief judge of Martinique, who was distinguished not only by her remarkable beauty, but also by a rare charm and friendly disposition. The death of his brother, who left him all his fortune, prompted Kazot to return to Paris, where he continued to enjoy the benefits of life: his marriage is ideal, his wit, pleasant manners and literary talent won him popularity in high society, he has many friends and admirers.
MYSTICAL SECRETS
In 1772, Kazot presented to the public the novella “The Devil in Love”, permeated with mystical moods - the impressionable writer was greatly influenced by the reading of books on Kabbalah and occult sciences. The story was received very well. It was here that a strange incident happened to Kazot, forcing this romantic dreamer to plunge into the depths of extreme mysticism. Soon after the publication of The Devil in Love, a mysterious stranger wrapped up in a cloak came to Kazot. He greeted the writer with some secret signs. When the astonished Kazot demanded an explanation, the stranger replied that he took him for a fellow in a secret society, moreover, with the highest degree of dedication. On such thoughts he was prompted by the book "The Devil in Love". Kazot assured the strangerthat does not belong to any of the secret societies - neither to the Freemasons, nor to the Illuminati, and everything stated in "The Devil in Love" is a product of his own fantasy. The stranger showed extreme surprise and insistently offered to instruct the writer in secrets, which "either by inspiration from above, or by pure chance" were reflected in the pages of the story. So Kazot became an adherent of the teachings of the occult sect of the Martinists, one of the offshoots of the numerous communities of the Illuminati. However, the fact that bizarre images can arise in Kazot's head even without the help of occult sects (as indicated by the example of the "Devil in Love"), soon found even more convincing confirmation. The stranger showed extreme surprise and insistently offered to instruct the writer in the secrets, which "either by inspiration from above, or by pure chance" were reflected in the pages of the story. So Kazot became an adherent of the teachings of the occult Martinist sect, one of the offshoots of the numerous communities of the Illuminati. However, the fact that bizarre images can arise in Kazot's head even without the help of occult sects (as indicated by the example of the "Devil in Love"), soon found even more convincing confirmation. The stranger showed extreme surprise and insistently offered to instruct the writer in the secrets, which "either by inspiration from above, or by pure chance" were reflected in the pages of the story. So Kazot became an adherent of the teachings of the occult Martinist sect, one of the offshoots of the numerous communities of the Illuminati. However, the fact that bizarre images can arise in Kazot's head even without the help of occult sects (as indicated by the example of the "Devil in Love"), soon found even more convincing confirmation.that bizarre images can appear in the head of Kazot and without the help of occult sects (as indicated by the example of the "Devil in Love"), soon found even more convincing confirmation.that bizarre images can appear in the head of Kazot and without the help of occult sects (as indicated by the example of the "Devil in Love"), soon found even more convincing confirmation.
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FATAL PROPHECY
Jean-François Laharpe, writer, literary critic, member of the French Academy, immortalized the famous Prediction of Casot in his memoirs. Laharpe recalls how, in early 1788, he witnessed a striking scene that took place at a dinner party at one of the noble nobles. The guests were sophisticated in the fashionable wit about religion at that time, and expressed confidence that the revolution would not keep itself waiting, and even then the Kingdom of Reason would come. Kazot alone, a well-known adherent of the monarchy, did not join the general fun. He declared with the most serious air: “Gentlemen, be happy, your desire will come true, you will all see this great, amazing revolution. You know that I am a little bit of a prophet - and so, I repeat to you, you will all see her. " Those gathered jokingly began to demand more accurate predictions. And they got them, and Kazot noted,that all his words will come true in six years. So, the writer and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet was predicted that he would die in prison from poison in order to avoid the executioner's ax. Condorcet was captured during the terror in 1794, thrown into prison, where he was found dead. As it is assumed, he was poisoned with poison, which he always wore in a ring. The thinker and writer Nicolas de Chamfort Casotte announced that he would open his veins with twenty-two razor blows, but would die from this only a few months later. Indeed, Chamfort was arrested in 1793, but released a few days later. Fearing another arrest, he tried to commit suicide, he was rescued, and a few months later he died of his wounds. The physician Felix Vic d'Azir, the politician Jean-Sylvain Vailly, the poet Jean-Antoine Rouchet, Kazot predicted death on the scaffold - and they were all executed in 1793-94. He announced the same fate to the Duchess de Grammont, adding that she would be divided by ladies more noble than she - and those present guessed that he meant Queen Marie Antoinette. Both the Duchess de Grammont and Marie Antoinette laid their heads on the chopping block. The last straw was the statement that the execution would not escape the king of France. The indignant Duchess de Grammont asked Casotta - why did he "shit on everyone" said nothing about himself. Then the writer gloomily predicted his own death … A convinced monarchist, Kazot tried to find a connection between the events of the Great French Revolution and the prophecies of the Apocalypse. When his letters fell into the hands of the Republicans, the seventy-three-year-old writer was arrested. Together with him, his daughter Elizabeth was arrested, who tried to take the blame. The tribunal sentenced the old man to death. However, Elizabeth's touching pleas for her father and his advanced age moved the crowd. Cries for clemency were heard. Then one of the guards offered Elizabeth a drink to the victory of the Republic. The girl without hesitation drained the glass of wine and the guards parted for the father and daughter. However, when friends congratulated Kazot on getting rid of death, the old man said: "Nothing of the kind - in three days my head will be cut off." Everything turned out according to him: Casotta was captured again and on September 25, 1792 he was executed …"Nothing of the kind - in three days my head will be cut off." Everything turned out according to him: Casotta was captured again and on September 25, 1792 he was executed …"Nothing of the kind - in three days my head will be cut off." Everything turned out according to him: Casotta was captured again and on September 25, 1792 he was executed …
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