First and Second Crusades (1080–1187) with the history of Charles the Good. The Chronicle of Godfrey de Bouillon, and the kingdom of Jerusalem. Première et deuxième croisade (1080-1187) avec l'histoire de Charles-le-Bon. La chronique de Godefroid de Bouillon et du royaume de Jérusalem. Godfrey de Bouillon, chronicles and legends of the time of the first two Crusades, 1095–1180 Godefroid de Bouillon, chroniques et légendes du temps des deux premières croisades, 1095-1180 Histoire du Manneken Pis racontée par lui-mêmeīiographie pittoresque des Jésuites ou Notices abrégées théologiques et historiques sur les jésuites célèbresĪ Picturesque Biography on the Jesuits or Theological and Historical Shortened Notes on the famous Jesuits and on Everything Pertaining to Feudalism.ĭictionnaire critique des reliques et des images miraculeusesĬritical Dictionary of Relics and Miraculous Images
et sur tout ce qui tient à la Féodalité.įeudal Dictionary, or, Research and Anecdotes on the Feudal Dimes and Rights, Strongholds and Benefices, Preferences etc. 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.ĭictionnaire féodal ou recherches et anecdotes sur les Dimes et les droits féodaux, les fiefs et les bénéfices, les privilèges etc. Le Diable Peint par Lui-Même ou, Galerie de petits romans, de contes bizarres, d'anecdotes prodigieuses sur les aventures des demons, les traits qui les caracterisent, leurs bonnes qualités et leurs infortunes les bons mots et les reponses singulieres qu'on leur attribue leurs amours, et les services qu'ils out pu rendre aux mortels, etc., etc., etc. 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. In 1846, he published a two-volume work entitled Dictionnaire Sciences Occultes et des Idées superstitieuses, another listing of demons. 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.īy the end of 1830, he ostensibly became an enthusiastic Catholic, much to the confusion of his former admirers and detractors. "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." In 1863, some images were added that made it famous: imaginative drawings concerning the appearance of certain demons.
In 1818, his best known work, Dictionnaire Infernal, was published. Between 18, he resided in Brussels, and then in the Netherlands, before he returned to France after having converted to the Catholic religion.Ĭollin 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. He worked as a printer and publisher in Plancy-l'Abbaye and Paris. He was a free-thinker influenced by Voltaire. 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 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.