{{Short description|French writer (1759–1839)}} '''Antoine Caillot''' (29 December 1759, in Lyon – c. 1839) was a French man of letters.
Caillot was identified as a priest and a confessor to prominent French noblewomen.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=McPhee|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbAODAAAQBAJ&dq=Antoine+Caillot+priest&pg=PT86|title=Liberty or Death: The French Revolution|date=2016-05-28|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-21950-0|language=en}}</ref> When the ecclesiastical oath was repealed, he left priesthood, married, was arrested during the reign of Terror and escaped death, so they say, by a confusion of names.
He was a teacher, bookseller and freemason. He published numerous books, mostly historical, moral or religious compilations as well as pamphlets, sometimes published under the pseudonyms "Gaspard l'Avisé" or "Abbé petit-maître".<ref>[http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb131732621/PUBLIC Antoine Caillot sur le catalogue BNF]</ref> During the riots leading to the French Revolution, he recorded accounts involving socio-political developments. He noted, for instance, that women were not spared in the "political contagion".<ref name=":0" /> His works also covered etiquette and social norms. The following dictum is attributed to the author: "it is important then, in order to respond to the demands of nature and of society, to contract the habit of domestic work at a young age".<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Popiel|first=Jennifer J.|title=Rousseau's Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France|publisher=University of New Hampshire Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1-58465-732-3|location=Durham, New Hampshire|pages=102|language=en}}</ref> This came with an explanation that its absence will lead to a lazy and untrained daughter.<ref name=":1" />
The [https://archive.org/details/nouveaudictionna00cailuoft ''Nouveau dictionnaire proverbial, satirique et burlesque, plus complet que ceux qui ont paru jusqu'a ce jour, a l'usage de tout le monde''] which he published in 1826<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gouws|first1=Rufus|title=Wörterbücher / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires. 2. Teilband|last2=Heid|first2=Ulrich|last3=Schweickard|first3=Wolfgang|last4=Wiegand|first4=Herbert Ernst|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=1990|isbn=3-11-012420-3|location=Berlin|pages=1187|language=de}}</ref> was little more than a copy of the [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k113396j.r=Dictionnaire+Comique+Le+Roux+.langFR ''Dictionaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre & proverbial''] by Philibert-Joseph Le Roux.
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== External links == * [http://data.bnf.fr/13173262/antoine_caillot/ Antoine Caillot] on data.bnf.fr * [https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Antoine_Caillot Antoine Caillot] on Wikisource {{Authority control}}
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