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Auguste Émile Faguet (; 17 December 18477 June 1916) was a French author and
literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
.


Biography

Faguet was born at
La Roche-sur-Yon La Roche-sur-Yon () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. The demonym for its inhabitants is ''Yonnais''. History The town expanded significantly after Na ...
,
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, and educated at the
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in Paris. After teaching for some time in
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and
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, he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. Faguet became professor in 1897. He was elected to the
Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
in 1900, and received the ribbon of the
Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
in the next year. Faguet acted as dramatic critic to the '' Soleil''; from 1892 he was literary critic to the ''Revue Bleue''; and in 1896 took the place of
Jules Lemaître François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 – 4 August 1914) was a French critic and dramatist. Biography Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret. He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was already well known for hi ...
on the ''
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''. Faguet died in
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, 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).
''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): *
De l'Amour de Soi
*
De l'Amour.
*
De la Famille.
*
De l'Amitié.
*
De la Vieillesse.
*
De la Profession.
*
La Patrie.
** De la Vérité. *
Le Devoir.
*
De Dieu.
* ''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).
"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).Garner, J.W. (1915)
"The Dread of Responsibility by Émile Faguet,"
''The American Political Science Review,'' Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 399–401.
*
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

*
Francisque Sarcey Francisque Sarcey (8 October 1827 – 16 May 1899) was a French journalist and dramatic critic. Career He was born in Dourdan, Essonne. After some years as schoolmaster, a job for which his temperament was ill-fitted, he entered journalism ...


References


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)

''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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