- Jules Lemaître
François Élie Jules Lemaître (
April 27 ,1853 -August 4 ,1914 ), was a Frenchcritic anddramatist .He was born at
Vennecy (Loiret ). He became a professor at theuniversity of Grenoble , but was already well known for hisliterary criticism , and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. He succeededJJ Weiss as drama critic of the "Journal des Débats ", and subsequently filled the same office on the "Revue des Deux Mondes ". His literary studies were collected under the title of "Les Contemporains" (7 series, 1886-1899), and his dramatic feuilletons as "impressions de théàtre" (10 series, 1888-1898).His sketches of modern authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety and originality of expression. He published two volumes of
poetry : "Les Médaillons" (1880) and "Petites orientales" (1883); also some volumes of "contes", among them "En marge des vieux livres" (1905). His plays are:
*"Révoltée" (1889)
*"Le député Leveau", and "Le Manage blanc" (1891)
*"Les Rois" (1893)
*"Le Pardon" and "L'Age difficile" (1895)
*"La Massière" (1905)
*"Bertnade" (1906)He was admitted to the
French Academy onJanuary 16 1896. His political views were defined in "La Campagne nationaliste" (1902), lectures delivered in the provinces by him and by Godefroy Cavaignac. He conducted a nationalist campaign in the "Écho de Paris", and was for some time president of theLigue de la Patrie Française , but resigned in 1904, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing.References
*1911
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