Louis François Cazamian (2 April 1877 – 22 September 1965) was a French academic and literary critic. He was the author of many books in both French and English dealing with English literature, including ''A History of English Literature'' (1927, with Émile Legouis), ''Le Roman Social en Angleterre'' (an early study of the

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), and ''The Development of English Humor'' (1952). Other works include ''The Social Impact of Dickens's Novels'', ''L'Humour de Shakespeare'' and ''Symbolisme et Poésie''. Along with his wife, Madeleine Cazamian, he translated English poetry into French. As professor of English literature at the University of Paris, he delivered three Rice Lectures in 1911: "The Unity of France", "The France of Today and Tomorrow" and "The Personality of France". He delivered the 1931 Andrew Lang Lecture, "Andrew Lang and the Maid of France". He received honorary degrees from

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universities. He was professor of modern English literature and civilization at the

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from 1925–1945.''Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature'', edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1942. He supervised, among others,

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in their time at the Sorbonne. He is thanked in the preface to

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1877 births 1965 deaths People from Saint-Denis, Réunion Academic staff of the University of Paris French literary critics French male non-fiction writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub