Émile Faguet
Émile Faguet | |
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 Portrait of Faguet, by Henri Mannes | |
| Born | Auguste Émile Faguet 17 December 1847 La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée |
| Died | 7 June 1916 (aged 68) Paris |
| Occupation | Literary critic, and author |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure |
| Notable works | The Cult of Incompetence |
| Spouse | Suzanne Travichon |
Auguste Émile Faguet (French pronunciation:
Biography
Faguet was born at
Légion d'honneur in the next year.[3]
Faguet acted as dramatic critic to the Revue Bleue; and in 1896 took the place of Jules Lemaître on the Journal des débats.[3] Faguet died in Paris, aged 68.
Works
- De Aurelii Prudentii Clementis Carminibus Lyricis (1883).
- La Tragédie Française au XVIe Siècle (1883).
- Corneille (1885).
- La Fontaine (1889).
- Notes sur le Théatre Contemporain, (3 vols., 1889–1891).
- Politiques et Moralistes du XIXe Siècle (1891).[4]
- Voltaire (1895).
- Cours de Poésie Française de l'Université de Paris (1897).
- Drame Ancien, Drame Moderne (1898).
- Questions Politiques (1899).
- Flaubert (1899).
- Discours de Réception de M. Émile Faguet (1901).
- André Chénier (1902).
- Propos Littéraires (5 vols., 1902–1910).
- Zola (1903).
- Le Libéralisme (1903).
- Propos de Théâtre (5 vols., 1903–1910).
- Simplification Simple de l’Orthographe (1905).
- Pour qu'on Lise Platon (1905).
- L'Anticléricalisme (1906).
- Le Socialisme en 1907 (1907).
- Problèmes Politiques du Temps Présent (1907).
- Le Pacifisme (1908).
- Discussions Politiques (1909).
- La Démission de la Morale (1910).
- Les Dix Commandements (10 vols., 1909–1910):
- Études Littéraires (1910).
- Madame de Sévigné (1910).
- Le Féminisme (1910).
- Les Amies de Rousseau (1910).
- Rousseau Contre Molière (1910).
- Vie de Rousseau (1911).
- En Lisant les Beaux Vieux Livres (1911).
- La Poésie Française (1911).
- Les Préjugés Nécessaires (1911).
- Rousseau Penseur (1912).
- Rousseau Artiste (1912).
- La Prose Française (1912).
- Ce que Disent les Livres (1912).
- L’Art de Lire (1912).
- De l'Idée de Patrie (1913).
- Monseigneur Dupanloup: Un Grand Évêque (1914).
- En Lisant Molière (1914).
- Chansons d'un Passant (1921).
In English translation
- Politicians & Moralists of the Nineteenth Century (1899).
- A Literary History of France (1907).[5][6]
- "French Seventeenth Century Literature and its European Influence." In: The Cambridge Modern History (1908).
- The Cult of Incompetence (1911).
- Balzac (1914).
- Flaubert (1914).
- The Dread of Responsibility (1914).[7][8]
- Initiation into Literature (1914).
- Initiation into Philosophy (1914).
- On Reading Nietzsche (1918).
Selected articles
- "Mme de Staël," Revue des Deux Mondes 83, 1887.
- "M. Ferdinand Brunetière," La Revue de Paris 1, 1894.
- "Le Livre a Paris," Cosmopolis 5, 1897.
- "Mesdames, Bientot au Vote!," La Revue des Deux Frances 4, 1898.
- "Corrections de Flaubert", La Revue Bleue, 3 June 1899.
- "All About a Hat," The Living Age 8, September 1900.
- "The Symbolical Drama," The International Quarterly 8, September 1903/March 1904.
- "Andrew Lang's 'The Mysteries of History'," The Sewanee Review 16, 1908.
- "Philosophie Scientifique." In: Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits, 1909.
- "La Vie de Nietzsche," Revue des Deux Mondes 58, 1910.
- "Essais et Notices," Revue des Deux Mondes, LXXXe Année, 1910.
- "François Maynard," Revue des Pyrénées 23, 1911.
- "Viele-Griffin," La Revue Bleue, 15 April 1912.
- "Thiers," Revue des Deux Mondes, XCe Année, 1920.
- "On the Nature of the Dramatic Emotion," The Tulane Drama Review 3 (2), 1958.
Miscellany
- Preface to Guillaume Guizot's Montaigne: Études et Fragments (1899).
- Introduction to Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes (1900).
- Preface to Édouard Ruel's Du Sentiment Artistique dans la Morale de Montaigne (1901).
- Preface to Séché & Bertaut's L'Évolution du Théâtre Contemporain (1908).
- Preface to Joseph Grasset's The Marvels Beyond Science (1910).
- Preface to André Gayot's Une Ancienne Muscadine, Fortunée Hamelin (1911).
- Preface to Arthur Meyer's Ce Que Mes Yeux On Vu (1911).
- Preface to Jean Harmand's A Keeper of Royal Secrets: Being the Private and Political Life of Madame De Genlis (1913).
- Introduction to Pierre Marivaux's Théâtre (1915).
- Introduction to Lessage's Gil Blas (n.d.)
- Introduction to Paul Courier's Lettres et Pamphlets (n.d.)
- Introduction to Alfred de Musset's Poésies (n.d.)
See also
References
- ^ Kitchin, William P.H. (1917). "Émile Faguet," The Catholic World, Vol. 105, No. 625, pp. 343–351.
- ^ Gosse, Edmund (1922). "Two French Critics: Émile Faguet-Remy de Gourmont." In: Aspects and Impressions. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., pp. 203–223.
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Faguet, Émile". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 125.
- ^ "M. Émile Faguet and the Eighteenth Century," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. CXCVI, 1902.
- ^ "A Literary History of France," The Author, Vol. VIII, 1908.
- ^ "Review of A Literary History of France by Émile Faguet". The Athenaeum (4172): 435–436. 12 October 1907.
- ^ Putnam, James J. (1915). "The Dread of Responsibility," Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 434–438.
- ^ Garner, J.W. (1915). "The Dread of Responsibility by Émile Faguet," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 399–401.
Further reading
- Bordeaux, Henry (1924). Portraits d'Hommes. Paris: Plon-Nourrit & Cie.
- Duval, Maurice (1911). Émile Faguet, le Critique, le Moraliste, le Sociologue. Paris: Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Libraire.
- Dyrkton, Joerge (1996). "The Liberal Critic as Ideologue: Émile Faguet and fin-de-siècle Reflections on the Eighteenth Century," History of European Ideas, Vol. 22, Nos. 5–6, pp. 321–336.
- Gourmont, Remy de (1909). "Le Musset des Familles", Promenades Littéraires, 3e Série.
- Scheifley, William H. (1917). Brieux and Contemporary French Society. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
- Séché, Alphonse (1904). Emile Faguet. Paris: Sansot.
- Wilmotte, Maurice (1907). Trois Semeurs d'Idées: Agénor de Gasparin, Emile de Laveleye, Emile Faguet. Paris: Fischbacher.
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