Émile Faguet


Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.

Biography

Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris. After teaching for some time in La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. Faguet became professor in 1897. He was elected to the Académie française in 1900, and received the ribbon of the Légion d'honneur in the next year.
Faguet 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. Faguet died in Paris, aged 68.

Works

De Aurelii Prudentii Clementis Carminibus Lyricis.La Tragédie Française au XVIe Siècle.Corneille.
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  • .Cours de Poésie Française de l'Université de Paris.
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  • .Discours de Réception de M. Émile Faguet.
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  • .Pour qu'on Lise Platon.
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  • * De la Vérité.
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  • * Études Littéraires.Madame de Sévigné.
  • .Les Amies de Rousseau.
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  • .Rousseau Artiste.La Prose Française.Ce que Disent les Livres.'.De l'Idée de Patrie.
  • .En Lisant Molière.Chansons d'un Passant.
In English translationPoliticians & Moralists of the Nineteenth Century.
Selected articlesRevue des Deux Mondes 83, 1887.La Revue de Paris 1', 1894.Cosmopolis 5, 1897.La Revue des Deux Frances 4, 1898.
  • "Corrections de Flaubert", La Revue Bleue, 3 June 1899.The Living Age 8, September 1900.The International Quarterly 8, September 1903/March 1904.The Sewanee Review 16, 1908.
  • In: Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits, 1909.Revue des Deux Mondes 58, 1910.Revue des Deux Mondes, LXXXe Année, 1910.Revue des Pyrénées 23, 1911.
  • "Viele-Griffin," La Revue Bleue, 15 April 1912.Revue des Deux Mondes, XCe Année, 1920.
  • "On the Nature of the Dramatic Emotion," The Tulane Drama Review 3, 1958.
Miscellany
  • Preface to Guillaume Guizot's '.
  • Introduction to Montesquieu's '.
  • Preface to Édouard Ruel's '.
  • Preface to Séché & Bertaut's '.
  • Preface to Joseph Grasset's '.
  • Preface to André Gayot's '.
  • Preface to Arthur Meyer's '.
  • Preface to Jean Harmand's '.
  • Introduction to Pierre Marivaux's '.
  • Introduction to Lessage's '
  • Introduction to Paul Courier's ''
  • Introduction to Alfred de Musset's ''''