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Jacques Collin de Plancy

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Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Infobox writer Jacques Albin Simon Collin de Plancy (28 January 1793 in Plancy-l'Abbaye – 1881 in Paris) was a French occultist, demonologist and writer. He published several works on occultism and demonology.<ref>J Stouff, Les Mille et un jours (2010) biblioweb.hypotheses.org "C'est sans doute la raison pour laquelle, il fut demandé à Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793-1881) qui ne connaissait par l'Orient, mais était expert en esprits et démons de toute sorte, d'en rédiger une introduction."
- Françoise Lavocat, Pierre Kapitaniak, and Marianne Closson, eds. "Fictions du diable: Littérature et démonologie de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil". Françoise Lavocat, H Kallendorf - Renaissance Quarterly, 2008 - JSTOR "... Finally, Jean Céard examines the lingering hold that the demonology of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries exerted upon the imaginations of the later Romantics, as exemplified by authors such as Jacques Collin de Plancy, who "rediscovered" earlier demonologists. ..."</ref>

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Illustration from Diable peint par lui-même (1825) depicting Collin de Plancy, reclining on his bed, having a discussion with the devil.

He was born Jacques Albin Simon Collin on 28 (in some sources 30) January 1793 in Plancy (presently Plancy-l'Abbaye), the son of Edme-Aubin Collin and Marie-Anne Danton, the sister of Georges-Jacques Danton who was executed the year after Jacques was born.<ref>Léon Frémont, Revue de Champagne et de Brie: Histoire, biographie, archaéologie. Georges Hérelle, 1880: "Jacques Collin, connu en littérature sous le nom de Collin de Plancy, naquit à Plancy, le 30 janvier 1794. Il était fils de Edme-Aubin Collin et de Marie-Anne Danton, et par cette dernière neveu du fameux Danton. Il commença ses études chez…"</ref> He later added the aristocratic de Plancy himself – an addition which later caused accusations against his son in his career as a diplomat. He was a free-thinker influenced by Voltaire. He worked as a printer and publisher in Plancy-l'Abbaye and Paris. Between 1830 and 1837, he resided in Brussels, and then in the Netherlands, before he returned to France after having converted to the Catholic religion.

Collin de Plancy followed the tradition of many previous demonologists of cataloguing demons by name and title of nobility, as it happened with grimoires like Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon. In 1818, his best known work, Dictionnaire Infernal, was published. In 1863, some images were added that made it famous: imaginative drawings concerning the appearance of certain demons. In 1822, it was advertised as:

"Anecdotes of the nineteenth new century or historiettes, recent anecdotes, features and words little known, singular adventures, various quotations, bringings together and curious parts, to be used for the history of customs and the spirit of the century when we live compared with the last centuries."

It is considered a major work documenting beings, characters, books, deeds and causes which pertain to the manifestations and magic of trafficking with Hell; divinations, occult sciences, grimoires, marvels, errors, prejudices, traditions, folktales, the various superstitions, and generally all manner of marvellous, surprising, mysterious, and supernatural beliefs.

By the end of 1830, he ostensibly became an enthusiastic Catholic, much to the confusion of his former admirers and detractors. In 1846, he published a two-volume work entitled Dictionnaire Sciences Occultes et des Idées superstitieuses,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> another listing of demons. The set cost 16 francs.

Jacques Collin de Plancy was the father of Victor Collin de Plancy (1853–1924), who, for nearly a decade, starting in 1884, was French Minister to Korea and whose collected art works and books became part of the core of the Korean collections of the French Bibliothèque Nationale and the Musée Guimet in Paris.<ref>François Roudaut: Le Fonds Collin de Plancy à la Bibliothèque de Troyes. Slatkine, 1994; Max Milner: Romantisme, 1995 (persee.fr): "Le fonds Collin de Plancy est constitué par les livres et documents donnés en 1923 à la Bibliothèque municipale de Troyes, en exécution du legs de Victor Collin de Plancy, orientaliste et diplomate, fils du polygraphe Jacques Collin de Plancy, qui est surtout connu comme…"</ref>

BibliographyEdit

Original name Translated Date Size/other
Dictionnaire Infernal Infernal Dictionary 1818 582 pages
lang}} The Devil Painted by Himself, or, a Gallery of small novels, bizarre tales, prodigious anecdotes about the adventures of demons, the traits that characterize their good qualities and their misfortunes, the right words and the answers that singular their attributes, their loves, and the services they have rendered out to mortals, etc., etc., etc. 1819 318 pages
lang}} Feudal Dictionary, or, Research and Anecdotes on the Feudal Dimes and Rights, Strongholds and Benefices, Preferences etc. and on Everything Pertaining to Feudalism. 1819 -
lang}} Critical Dictionary of Relics and Miraculous Images 1821 3 books, 450, 470 and 416 pages
lang}} Voyage to the Centre of the Earth 1821 -
lang}} Treatise on the Relics by Jean Calvin 1822 -
lang}} History of Manneken Pis told by Himself 1824 Lacrosse, Bruxelles
lang}} A Picturesque Biography on the Jesuits or Theological and Historical Shortened Notes on the famous Jesuits 1826 110 pages
lang}} Military Record of the Belgians 1835–1836 4 volumes
lang}} Legends of French History II 1850 -
lang}} Godfrey de Bouillon, chronicles and legends of the time of the first two Crusades, 1095–1180 1842 479 pages
lang}} Legends of the Blessed Virgin 1845 392 pages
lang}} Legends of French History 1846 386 pages
lang}} The Chronicle of Godfrey de Bouillon, and the kingdom of Jerusalem. First and Second Crusades (1080–1187) with the history of Charles the Good... 1848 -
lang}} Queen Bertha with the Large Foot 1854 274 pages
lang}} Legends of the Church's Commandments 1860 396 pages
lang}} Legends of the Sacraments 1860 396 pages
lang}} Legends of Women in Real Life 1861 412 pages, Henri Plon, Paris
lang}} Legends of the Old Testament, collected apocryphal books, Rabbinical and legendary ones, distinguished carefully from the crowned texts 1861 396 pages
lang}} Infernal legends, tales and pacts of the hosts of Hell with the mankind. 1861 -
lang}} Legends of the other world, to serve as a history of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell, with some drafts of characters unconcerned with their soul 1862 396 pages
lang}} The Intimate Life and the Legends of the two Emperors Napoleon I and Napoleon II until the coming of Napoleon III 1863 411 pages
lang}} Legends of the Calendar 1863 396 pages
lang}} Legends of the wandering Jew and the sixteen queens of Munster 1866 393 pages
lang}} Legends of the Commandments of God 1864 396 pages
lang}} Legends of the Seven deadly sins 1864 396 pages
lang}} Legends of the twelve guests of the chanoine de Tours 1864 396 pages
lang}} - 1871 82 pages
lang}} End of time, confirmed by authentic prophecies lately collected 1871 211 pages
lang}} Life of the Curate J. Meslier according to Voltaire 1871 -
lang}} Research on the food of the reptiles and the batrachians of France 1876 -
lang}} Catalogue of reptiles and batrachians of the department of Aube and study on the geographical distribution of the reptiles and batrachians of the east of France 1878 44 pages
lang}} Legends of the spirits and the demons which circulate around us - 396 pages
lang}} Doctor Péperkouk - -
lang}} Legends of Origins - 412 pages
lang}} Legends of the theological virtues and the cardinal virtues - 396 pages
lang}} Popular traditions and strange anecdotes: Infernal legends - -
lang}} Legends of the Middle Ages - 396 pages

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