Sarrazin, Adrian de

Adrian de Sarrazin was born into a noble noble family, but the year of birth differs in different sources. The father, Count Gilbert, chose a military career for his son, as a result of which he began to receive military education at a military school in Vendome, where one of his classmates was Duke Eli Dekaz , with whom Adrian made friends and kept this friendship for life. After graduating from military school, he entered the artillery academy in Brienay.

After graduating from this institution, in 1794 he returned to his family home and initially was engaged only in literary work, to which he had been interested since childhood. He was a supporter of the royalists and in 1804 participated in a lawsuit filed by some royalists against Napoleon Bonaparte. When, in 1814, after the first Bourbon Restoration, Dekaz became Prime Minister, Sarrazen became part of his cabinet. After the resignation of his friend in 1820, he also left the service, returning to his native places and continuing his studies in literature. In 1828 he was nominated by fellow countrymen as a candidate for parliament, but was not elected. He stopped writing twenty-five years before his death.

Of his many works at one time, his Caravansérail (1810 - a collection of oriental tales; Sarrazen knew the Persian language and claimed to have translated some of them from the original), Contes moraux et nouvelles (1813) and Bardouc ou le were successful Pâtre du mont Taurus "(1814). His Oeuvres complètes came out in 1825.

• Sarrazin, Adrian // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

• Sarrazin, Adrien de // Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, T.38. - 1863. - P.28-29 (fr.)