René Doumic

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René Doumic (1898)
Doumic (1937)

René Doumic (born March 7, 1860 in Paris , † December 2, 1937 there ) was a French literary historian and critic.

Doumic attended the Lycée Condorcet and studied at the École normal supérieure . From 1883 to 1897 he taught rhetoric at the Collège Stanislas and began a journalistic career. For a number of magazines such as the Journal des débats , the Correspondant and the Revue des Deux Mondes , of which he was director from 1916 to 1937.

In 1907, Doumic's admission to the Académie française had failed. Instead, in 1909, when he was elected to succeed the late historian Gaston Boissier, he narrowly prevailed over Denys Cochin ( Fauteuil 26 ). He was followed in 1938 by the writer André Maurois in this place.

In 1923, Doumic was entrusted with the post of Secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie française.

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