He wrote a picaresque novel in which an innkeeper's wife tells the story of Madame (*) Pommeraye to a character who repeatedly tells his master that everything is foreordained by being written in a great scroll in the sky.
In one work by this author, two characters debate whether it would have been better if Racine had become a respectable silk merchant, instead of a morally terrible person who wrote great plays. In one novel by him, when a marquis grows bored of the noblewoman he has seduced, the woman revenges herself by tricking him into marrying a prostitute, who poses with her mother as highly religious women. He wrote a picaresque novel in which an innkeeper's wife tells the story of Madame (*) Pommeraye to a character who repeatedly tells his master that everything is foreordained by being written in a great scroll in the sky. This author also wrote an imaginary dialogue between himself and the title relative of a famous composer. For 10 points, name this French Enlightenment-era author, whose philosophical fiction includes Rameau's Nephew and Jacques the Fatalist.
In one work by this author, two characters debate whether it would have been better if Racine had become a respectable silk merchant, instead of a morally terrible person who wrote great plays.
Denis Diderot