André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat [SEP] native language
André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat
André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (17 April 1739 – 1800) was a French novelist, best known for his novel "Le Diable au corps".
Nerciat was born at Dijon, the son of a royal official in Burgundy. He retired from the military in 1775 and worked as a writer of plays, verse, light music and pornographic novels, while also serving as a secret agent of the French government across Europe. He may also have worked as a double agent,
books Fiction.
- William Thomas Beckford – "Vathek"
- James Boswell – "Dorado, a Spanish Tale" (published anonymously)
- Harriet Lee – "The Errors of Innocence"
- Isabelle de Montolieu (as "le traducteur de "Werther"") – "Caroline de Lichtfield, ou Mémoires extraits des papiers d'une famille prussienne"
- André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat – "Le Diable au Corps"
- Friedrich Schiller – "The Ghost-Seer" ("Der Geisterseher"