René Doumic

René Doumic

René Doumic (7 March 1860, in Paris – 2 December 1937), French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the Collège Stanislas de Paris.

He was a contributor to Le Moniteur Universel, the Journal des Débats and the Revue bleue, but was best known as the independent and uncompromising literary critic of the Revue des Deux Mondes.

Bibliography

  • Éléments d'histoire littéraire (1888)
  • Portraits d'écrivains (1892)
  • De Scribe à Ibsen (1893)
  • Écrivains d'aujourd'hui (1894)
  • Études sur la littérature française (5 vols., 1896-1905)
  • Les Jeunes (1896)
  • Essais sur le théâtre contemporain (1897)
  • Les Hommes et les idées du XIXe siècle (1903)
  • an edition of the Lettres d'Elvire à Lamartine (1905).

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Doumic, René". Encyclopædia Britannica. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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