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Antoine de Rivarol (26 June 1753 – 11 April 1801) was a Royalist〔Beum, Robert (1997). ("Ultra-Royalism Revisited," ) ''Modern Age'' 39 (3), p. 316.〕 French writer during the Revolutionary era.〔Faÿ, Bernard (1978). ''Rivarol et la Révolution''. Paris: Librairie Académique Perin.〕〔Baranger, Valérie (2007). ''Rivarol Face à la Révolution Française''. Éditions de Paris.〕 He was briefly married to the translator Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol. ==Biography== Rivarol was born in Bagnols, Languedoc. It appears that his father, an innkeeper, was a cultivated man. The son assumed the title of comte de Rivarol, asserting a connection with a noble Italian family, although his enemies said his name was really Riverot and that he was not of a noble family. After various vicissitudes, he went to Paris in 1777 and won some academic prizes.〔Barth, Hans (1960). "Antoine de Rivarol and the French Revolution." In: ''The Idea of Order: Contributions to a Philosophy of Politics''. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., p. 49.〕 In 1780 he married Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol, a translator of Scottish descent. She had translated some works by Samuel Johnson and Johnson had become a friend of her family. Antoine Rivarol abandoned his wife after a short relationship which resulted in the birth of a son.〔J. G. Alger, ‘Rivarol , Louisa Henrietta de (b. before 1750, d. 1821)’, rev. Rebecca Mills, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 6 Dec 2014 )〕 To Rivarol's embarrassment, a nurse who supported his abandoned wife was awarded a prize for virtuous behavior by the Academie Francaise. Antoine was unable to quash the prize but he was able to keep his wife's name out of the report of the award. He was divorced in 1784.〔 In 1784, his ''Discours sur l'Universalité de la Langue Française'' and his translation of Dante's ''Inferno'' were favourably noted.〔Kerslake, Lawrence (1981). "Rivarol's Evaluation and Translation of Dante," ''Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century'' 12, pp. 81–105.〕〔Osen, James L. (1995). ''Royalist Political Thought During the French Revolution''. Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 31.〕 The year before the French Revolution broke out, he and Champcenetz published a lampoon, titled ''Petit Almanach de nos grands hommes pour 1788'', that ridiculed without pity a number of writers of proven or future talent, along with a great many nobodies.〔"Antoine de Rivarol," ''Nation'' 32, No. 834, (23 June 1881): 438–439.〕 Rivarol was the foremost journalist, commentator and epigrammatist among that faction of aristocrats which was most uncompromisingly reactionary: he heaped scorn upon republicanism and defended the ''Ancien Régime''.〔Matyaszewski, Paweł (1997). ''La Pensée Politique d'Antoine de Rivarol''. Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego.〕 Rivarol's writing was published in the ''Journal Politique'' of Antoine Sabatier de Castres and the ''Actes des Apotres'' of Jean Gabriel Peltier. He left France in 1792, first settling in Brussels, then moving successively to London, Hamburg, and Berlin, where he died. Rivarol's rivals in France – in sharp conversational sayings – included Alexis Piron and Nicolas Chamfort. His brother, Claude François (1762–1848), was also an author. His works include a novel, ''Isman, ou le Fatalisme'' (1795); a comedy, ''Le Véridique'' (1827); and the history ''Essai sur les Causes de la Révolution Française'' (1827). He died as exile in Berlin and was interred in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery, but the site of his grave was soon forgotten.〔Ernst Jünger, Rivarol, 1956 (German quote at (books.google.de )); German article at (Tödliche Pointen flirren durch die Pariser Salons ), Wolf Lepenies, Die Welt, 04.08.12〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antoine de Rivarol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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