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Prix Saintour
The Prix Saintour is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut de France since 1835. It is an annual literary prize, created in by the Académie française and awarded from 1893 to 1989 The Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and the Academie des sciences morales et politiques still award the prix Saintour. Laureates of the Académie Française From 1893 to 1924 * 1893 : ** Gaston de Raimes (1859-19..) for ''Soldats de France, actions héroïques'' ** André Saglio for ''Maisons d’hommes célèbres'' * 1894 : ** Charles-Louis Livet (1828-1898) for ''Lexique comparé de la langue de Molière et des autres écrivains'' * 1895 : ** Edmond Huguet for ''Étude sur la syntaxe de Rabelais'' ** Maxime Lanusse (1853-1930) for ''De l’influence du dialecte gascon sur la langue française, de la fin du XVe siècle à la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle'' ** Abbé Charles Urbain (1852-1930) for ''Nicolas Coeffeteau (1574-1623)' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institut De France
The (; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute manages approximately 1,000 foundations, as well as museums and châteaux open for visit. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which amounted to a total of over €27 million per year in 2017. Most of these prizes are awarded by the institute on the recommendation of the . History The building was originally constructed as the Collège des Quatre-Nations by Cardinal Mazarin, as a school for students from new provinces attached to France under Louis XIV. The inscription over the façade reads "JUL. MAZARIN S.R.E. CARD BASILICAM ET GYMNAS F.C.A M.D.C.LXI", attesting that Mazarin ordered its construction in 1661. The Institut de France was established on 25 October 1795, by the National Convention. On 1 January 2018, Xavier Darcos took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Brunschvicg
Léon Brunschvicg (; 10 November 1869 – 18 January 1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. He co-founded the ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' with Xavier Leon and Élie Halévy in 1893. Life He was born into a Jewish family. From 1895 to 1900 he taught at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1897 he completed his thesis under the title ' (''The Modalities of Judgement''). In 1909 he became professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne. He was married to Cécile Kahn, at bu.univ-angers.fr a major campaigner for in France, with whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1904. Events *January **Mark Twain begins dictating his ''Autobiography of Mark Twain, Autobiography''. **The first issue of ''Süddeutsche Monatshefte'' is published in Munich by Paul Nikolaus Cossmann. *January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski. *February 25 – J. M. Synge's tragedy ''Riders to the Sea'' is first performed at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society. *March 1 – Sophie Radford de Meissner's translation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1863 historical drama ''The Death of Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Terrible'' is first played at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway theatre, Broadway, New York City, by Richard Mansfield. *April 24 – A Lithuanian press ban in the Russian Empire is lifted. Petras Vileišis installs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Séché
Léon Séché (3 April 1848 - 5 May 1914) was a French poet. Biography Léon Séché was born in Ancenis. He died in Nice. Works * ''Les griffes du lion'' (1871) * ''Rose Epoudry'', Roman, 1881. * ''La Chanson de la vie, poésies''. Couronné par l’Académie Française, Didier, 1889. * ''Les derniers jansénistes, depuis la ruine de Port-Royal jusqu'à nos jours'', 3 tomes, 1891, Couronné par l’Académie française. * ''Les origines du concordat'' (1894) * ''Éducateurs et moralistes'', Delagrave, 1895. * ''Jules Simon'', 1814-1896, Figures bretonnes, E. Lechevalier, 1898. * ''Port Royal des Champs, Petit manuel du pèlerin'', suivi par ''Racine au Port-Royal'', L Chevalier, 1899. * ''Les œuvres poétiques de Jacques Pelletier du Mans'', Revue de la Renaissance, 1904. * ''Honoré de Balzac et ses démêlés avec Sainte-Beuve Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic. Early life He was born in Boulogne, ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1903. Events *January–December – Henry James's novel ''The Ambassadors'' is published as a serial in the monthly ''North American Review''. *May 22 – Japanese philosophy student Misao Fujimura (藤村操, born 1886) carves a poem into a tree at Kegon Falls before committing suicide over unrequited love. * June 20 – Jack London's novel ''The Call of the Wild'' begins serial publication in the ''Saturday Evening Post''. *October 24 – Mark Twain sets out for Florence (Italy). *December – The Prix Goncourt for French literature is awarded for the first time, to John Antoine Nau for his novel ''Force ennemie''. *December 16 – The London County Council erects a plaque to novelist Charles Dickens (d. 1870) on his former home in Doughty Street. *December 19 – The first of G. K. Chesterton's short stories in the series ''The Club of Queer Trades'', "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Marty-Laveaux
Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux (13 April 1823, Paris – 11 July 1899, Vitry-sur-Seine) was a French literary scholar. He is best known for his ''La Pléiade Française'', a long series of editions of the poets of La Pléiade. He also edited Corneille Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...'s works (1862–68). External links * * 1823 births 1899 deaths French scholars French male writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1902. Events *January 5 **The political drama ''Danton's Death'' (''Dantons Tod'', completed and published in 1835) by Georg Büchner (died 1837 in literature, 1837), is first performed, at the Belle-Alliance-Theater in Berlin by the Vereins Neue Freie Volksbühne. **George Bernard Shaw's controversial 1893 play ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'' receives its first performance at a private London club. *January 23 – The first example of a Sherlockian game – a study of inconsistencies of dates in Arthur Conan Doyle's ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (the serialisation of which in ''The Strand Magazine'' concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick – appears in ''The Cambridge Review''. *April – Mark Twain buys a home in Tarrytown, New York. On June 4 he receives an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of Missouri. *June 16 – Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege about the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Chamard
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * Henri I, Duke of Nemours (1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este * Henri II, Duke of Nemours (1625–1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours * Henri, Count of Harcourt (1601–1666), French nobleman * Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (1296–1349), bishop of Metz * Henri de Gondi (other) * Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne * Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857–1923), French mountain climber * Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg * Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commanders of Batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bédier
Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France. Biography Bédier was born in Paris, France, to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. He was a professor of medieval French literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland (1889–1891) and the Collège de France, Paris (c. 1893). Modern theories of the ''fabliaux'' and the ''chansons de geste'' are based on two of Bédier's studies. Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including '' Le roman de Tristan et Iseut'' (1900), ''La chanson de Roland'' (1921), and '' Les fabliaux'' (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death. His ''Tristan et Iseut'' was translated into Cornish by A. S. D. Smith, into English by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, and into German by Rudolf G. Binding. In 2013, a new English translation by Edward J. Gallagher was published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1901. Events *January 31 – Anton Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' (Три сeстры, ''Tri sestry'') opens at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko with Stanislavski as Vershinin, Olga Knipper as Masha, Margarita Savetskaya as Olga, Maria Andreyeva as Irina, and Maria Lilina (Stanislavsky's wife) as Natasha. *February 22 – Leo Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church. *May 1 – Publication of Maurice Maeterlinck's ''The Life of the Bee'' in Belgium. *May 6 – Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, 52, marries his third wife, the Swedish-Norwegian actress Harriet Bosse, 23, after an engagement in March during rehearsals for his play ''Easter (Påsk)''. *May 25 – Chekhov marries Olga Knipper in a quiet ceremony. *May 28 – '' Cherry v. Des Moines Leader'' is decided in the Iowa Supreme Court, upholding the right to publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Brunot
Ferdinand-Eugène-Jean-Baptiste Brunot (6 November 1860 – 7 January 1938) was a French linguist and philologist, editor of the ground-breaking ''Histoire de la langue française des origines à 1900'' ("History of the French Language from its Origins to 1900"). Brunot was born in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. He found his first faculty position and published his first book from the ''Faculté des lettres de Lyon'', now the Lumière University Lyon 2. In October 1891 he became a lecturer at the Sorbonne at the age of 31. Here he began his long collaboration with fellow linguist Louis Petit de Julleville and produced the first volume of his monumental History, dealing with medieval French. It would eventually stretch to nine volumes published in his lifetime, and 13 volumes altogether. He also published a standard French grammar, and several papers advocating simplified French spelling. Brunot served as mayor of the 14th arrondissement of Paris in the difficult war years of 1914 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1900. Events *March 5 – New York performances of the play '' Sapho'' curbed for immorality. *March 15 – Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand's ''l'Aiglon''. *May **Rainer Maria Rilke makes his second visit to Russia with Lou Andreas-Salomé and her husband. **The first film to feature the detective character Sherlock Holmes, ''Sherlock Holmes Baffled'', is released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. *May 17 – L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children. *June 24 – The Hanlin Academy in Peking, housing "the oldest and richest library in the world", catches fire and is destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion. *June 25 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Library Cave or Cave for Preserving Scriptures, No. 17 of the Mogao Caves in n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
