Arvède Barine

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Arvède Barine

Arvède Barine , pseudonym of Louise-Cécile Vincens, b. Bouffé (born November 17, 1840 in Paris , † November 14, 1908 there ) was a French historian , biographer and literary critic .

Life

Arvède Barine was a granddaughter of the Swiss statesman Stapfer, who immigrated to France under Napoleon Bonaparte . She was married to Charles Ernest Vincens (1836-1908). She emerged with translations from Russian and English. She translated La Russie contemporaine (1872) by Herbert Barry from the English and souvenirs from the Russian : enfance, adolescence, jeunesse (1886) by Tolstoy . She wrote articles for the Revue politique et littéraire , Revue bleue , Revue des Deux Mondes , Nouvelle Revue and others. In her literary and cultural-historical essays she mostly dealt with foreign phenomena, gained entry in the Journal des Débats with treatises on Ibsen and since 1899 has been a regular at Figaro for women's issues and education.

Works

literature

personal data
SURNAME Barine, Arvède
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincens, Louise-Cécile; Bouffé, Louise-Cécile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian, biographer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1908
Place of death Paris