Louis de Loménie
Louis-Léonard de Loménie (born December 3, 1815 in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche , † April 2, 1878 in Paris ) was a French literary scholar , biographer and essayist .
Life
Loménie was born in Limousin in 1815 . He studied in Avignon and was from 1862 university lecturer for French literature at the Collège de France and then from 1864 at the École polytechnique .
Loménie was editor of Revue des Deux Mondes for many years . His first significant work was the Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847), a series of biographies in 10 volumes. But his most important work was the biography of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais .
In 1871 he was elected to the Académie française .
Fonts
- Par un homme de rien: Galerie des contemporains illustres. 10 volumes. au Bureau Central, Paris 1840–1847.
- Beaumarchais et son temps. Études sur la société en France au XVIIIe siècle. D'après des documents inédits. 2 volumes. Lévy, Paris 1856 ( online ).
- La Comtesse de Rochefort et ses amis. Études sur les mœurs en France au XVIIIe, avec des documents inédits. Lévy, Paris 1870.
- Les Mirabeau. Nouvelles études sur la société française au XVIIIe siècle . 2 volumes. Dentu, Paris 1870–1879 (Vol. 3–5, 1889–1891, continuée par son fils, Charles de Loménie).
- Esquisses historiques et littéraires. Lévy, Paris 1879.
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Literature by and about Louis de Loménie in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
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SURNAME | Loménie, Louis de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loménie, Louis-Léonard de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French literary scholar, biographer and essayist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1815 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche |
DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1878 |
Place of death | Paris |