Ernest Fouinet

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Ernest Fouinet (1799, Nantes – 1845, Paris) was a 19th-century French novelist and poet.

Biography

A member of the

Ministry of Finance, employed his bureaucratic leisure to translate into French, Arabic, Sanskrit, Malay
, etc. poetry and prose, as well as English masterpieces, and collaborated with the Cent-et-un, la France littéraire, the Annales romantiques, the Keepsakes.

He then relaxed from his scholarly studies of

Sainte-Beuve
, by dedicating him one of his best Consolations.

Works

Sources

  • Antoine Laporte, Bibliographie contemporaine : histoire littéraire du dix-neuvième siècle, Paris F. Vieweg, 1888, (p. 18).
  • Ferdinand Natanael Staaff, La Littérature française depuis la formation de la langue jusqu'à nos jours : auteurs enlevés à la littérature depuis la Restauration (1830–1869), Paris, Didier et Cie, 1874, (p. 1045).
  • Pierre Larcher, Autour des Orientales. Victor Hugo, Ernest Fouinet et la poésie arabe archaïque, Bulletin d'Études Orientales, tome 62, 2013 [année de tomaison], (p. 99–123), Beyrouth, Institut Français du Proche-Orient, 2014.