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The courtesy title chevalier de Mailly is accorded in France to a younger brother of the marquis or the comte de Mailly in each generation. Though several have carried the designation,〔The chevalier de Mailly, son of the marquis, was married in July 1687 to Mlle de Sainte-Hermine, a kinswoman of Mme de Maintenon; the King gave her 100,000 livres for a dowry and a position for the chevalier in the household of Monseigneur (''Mémoires du marquis de Sourches sur le règne de Louis XIV'' (1883) vol. II p 62). The chevalier de Mailly (died 1757) of a later generation was ''chef de corps'' of dragoons in 1740, ((Dragoons )) thanks to the offices of his sister-in-law Mlle de Mailly, the second of three Nesle sisters who were successively mistresses to Louis XV. (''Mémoires du duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV'' vol. III (1860), under March 1740, pp 148ff).〕 the celebrated Jean, chevalier de Mailly (〔A date 1657 is apparently wrong.〕-?1724)— possibly a brother of Louis II de Mailly (1662-1699), comte de Mailly, seigneur de Rubempré, seigneur de Rieux, seigneur d'Haucourt—〔((Genealogy of the house of Mailly ))〕 was the author of literary fairy tales, imaginary adventures, racy novels and romances, often published anonymously by necessity, sometimes published outside France. Departing from the formulas established by Mme d'Aulnoy, he introduced magic and marvels in his fairy tales to entertain his readers and bring his gallant lovers together. His fairy tales have often been reprinted and collected. ==Life and works== He appears to have become embroiled in a gay scandal in 1682, in which an aristocratic underground circle practicing ''le vice italien'' was uncovered.〔Maurice Lever, ''Les bûchers de Sodome'' (Paris:Fayard) 1985 pp 156-67.〕 The supposed ''Confrérie italienne'' was even ascribed a constitution with a set of rules.〔Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy's ''Histoire amoureuse des Gaulles'' in the chapter "La France devenue italienne"; letters of the Princess Palatine, the confidante of "Monsieur", Louis XIV's gay brother.〕 The chevalier de Mailly contributed a poem to the ''Mercure Galant'' December 1700, on the occasion of the departure for Spain of the duc d'Anjou as Philippe V.〔((on-line text ))〕 He declaimed his verses in the Café Procope, with the other wits of Paris. Still, as a result of his scurrilous and anonymous secondary literary career, he could not fail to come to the attention of the lieutenant of police, Marc-Renée de Voyer d'Argenson, whose notes asserted that, far from being a godson of Louis XIV who had been wounded more than once in the armies of the King,〔According to a note attached to his secret police dossier.〕 he was actually the bastard of a maid in the hôtel de Mailly, brought up, out of charity by the marquise de Mailly. The wife of a bookseller, Auroy, who had advanced him 50 ''écus'' testified against him in 1702; it appeared to her that the manuscript, ''La Fille capitaine'',〔Nothing is known of this work. Pierre Clément, ''La police sous Louis XIV'' p. 456.〕 instead of working up the personal memoirs of a well-known Parisian woman— recognizably the adventuress and singer Julie d'Aubigny—〔(Oscar Paul Gilbert, "Mademoiselle Maupin" )〕 which Mme Auroy had entrusted to him;, produced a result instead that proved to be too scandalous to publish: it featured bedroom scenes and an escaping nun setting a fire to her convent. It appears that Mailly was required to quit Paris. A follow-up report of 15 September 1711 noted that he had returned to Paris and, being apprehended, spent a month in the Châtelet, following which he retired quietly to Rouen,〔Paul Cottin, editor, ''Rapports inedits du lieutenant de police René d'Argenson, (1697-1715)'', 278.〕 where he seems to have remained, for his last work was printed there. In the deductive reasoning shown by his princes of Serendip, taken up by Voltaire in ''Zadig'', the chevalier de Mailly is sometimes credited as the originator of the clue-driven detective novel.〔(A. Craig Bell, "The rise and fall of the detective novel"''Contemporary Review'' April 1998. )〕 The tale was retold in English by Horace Walpole,〔Walpole, ''The Three Princes of Serendip'' (1754)〕 and the idea of ''serendipity'' passed into the English language. 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「Chevalier de Mailly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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