Paul Stapfer
Paul Stapfer was a French essayist, born in Paris, and educated at the Bonaparte Lyceum. After serving as tutor in the family of François Guizot, he became a professor at Grenoble. In 1883, he accepted a similar professorship at Bordeaux. Stapfer's essays are remarkable for their clarity of style, perfection of finish and accuracy of detail. He edited the Grands écrivains series. Among his works are:
- Petite comédie de la critique littéraire de Molière selon les trois écoles philosophiques
- Fragment Inedit
- Causeries guernesiaises
- Laurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages
- Shakespeare et l'antiquité, which revealed to anti-Stratfordians the depth of its subject's knowledge of Latin and his formidable acquaintance with Greek.
- Goethe et ses deux chefs-d'œuvre classiques
- Racine et Victor Hugo
- Rabelais, sa personne, son génie, son œuvre
- Montaigne
- La grande prédication chrétienne en France: Bossuet, Adolphe Monod
- Des réputations littéraires and Victor Hugo et la grande poésie satirique en France
- Questions esthétiques et religieuses
- Etudes sur Goethe
- ''Vers la vérité''