René Doumic
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.
Works
- Éléments d'histoire littéraire (1888)
- Portraits d'écrivains. Alexandre Dumas fils , Émile Augier , Victorien Sardou , Octave Feuillet , Edmond et Jules de Goncourt , Émile Zola , Alphonse Daudet (1892)
- De Scribe à Ibsen (1893)
- Écrivains d'aujourd'hui. Paul Bourget , Guy de Maupassant , Pierre Loti , Jules Lemaître , Ferdinand Brunetière , Émile Faguet , Ernest Lavisse (1894)
- Études sur la littérature française (5 volumes, 1896–1905)
- Les Jeunes, études et portraits (1896)
- Essais sur le théâtre contemporain (1897)
- Les Hommes et les idées du XIXe siècle (1903)
- George Sand . Dix conférences sur sa vie et son œuvre (1909)
- Lamartine (1912)
- Saint-Simon , la France de Louis XIV (1919)
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Doumic, René |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French literary historian and critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1860 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1937 |
Place of death | Paris |