Antoine Caillot

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. When the ecclesiastical oath was repealed, he left priesthood, married, was arrested during the reign of Terror and escaped death, so they say, by a confusion of names.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". 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". This came with an explanation that its absence will lead to a lazy and untrained daughter. was little more than a copy of the Dictionaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre & proverbial by Philibert-Joseph Le Roux.