- Émile Faguet
Émile Faguet (
December 17 ,1847 -June 7 ,1916 ) was a French writer andcritic .He was born at
La Roche sur Yon , and educated at theÉcole normale supérieure inParis . After teaching for some time inLa Rochelle andBordeaux , he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. He became professor in 1897. He was elected to theAcadémie française in 1900, and received the ribbon of theLegion of Honour in the next year.He acted as dramatic critic to the "Soleil"; from 1892 he was literary critic to the "Revue bleue"; and in 1896 took the place of
Jules Lemaître on the "Journal des débats ".Among his works are monographs on
Gustave Flaubert (1899),André Chénier (1902),Émile Zola (1903); an admirably concise "Histoire de la littérature française depuis le XVII' siècle jusqu'a nos jours"; series of literary studies on the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; "Questions politiques" (1899); "Propos littéraires" (3 series, 1902-1905); "Le Libéralisme" (1902); and "L'Anticléricalisme" (1906); "Vie de Rousseau" (1911); "Petite histoire de la littérature française" (1913).See
Alphonse Séché , "Émile Faguet" (1904).References
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