Origins & Early Life

Victor-Joseph Étienne, called de Jouy (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ ʒozɛf etjɛn də ʒwi]; 19 October 1764 – 4 September 1846), was a French dramatist who abandoned an early military career for a successful literary one. De Jouy was born at Versailles in 1764. At the age of eighteen he received a commission in the army, and sailed for South America in the company of the governor of Guiana. He returned almost immediately to France to complete his studies, and re-entered the service two years later.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

He was sent to India, and many of the events there were afterwards turned to literary account. His literary contemporary Stendhal records in his book Memoirs of an Egoist one such violent action, of rape. He writes, "One day in India he [de Jouy] and two or three friends went into a temple to escape the dreadful heat. There they found the priestess, a kind of Vestal Virgin. M.

Enduring Legacy & Impact

de Jouy found it amusing to maker her unfaithful to Brahma on the very altar of her god. The Indians realised what had happened, came running up in arms, cut the wrists and then the head off the vestal virgin, and cut in half the officer who was a chum of the author of Sylla who, after the death of his...

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