John-Marguerite-Émile Lemoinne (17 October 1815 – 14 December 1892) was a French journalist.
Personal and public life
Early years
Lemoinne was born of French parents in London. He was educated first at an English school and then in France. In 1840 he began writing for the ''Journal des débats'', on English and other foreign questions, and under the
empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
he held up to admiration the free institutions of England by contrast with imperial methods. After 1871 he supported Thiers, but his sympathies rather tended towards a liberalized monarchy, until the
comte de Chambord
Henri, Count of Chambord and Duke of Bordeaux (french: Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord; 29 September 1820 – 24 August 1883) was disputedly King of France from 2 to 9 August 1830 as Hen ...
's policy made such a development an impossibility, and he then ranged himself with the moderate
republicans
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Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
.
Career
In 1875 Lemoinne was elected to the
Académie française
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, and in 1880 he was nominated a life senator. Distinguished though he was for a real knowledge of England among the French journalists who wrote on foreign affairs, his tone towards English policy greatly changed in later days, and though he never shared the extreme French bitterness against England as regards
Egypt
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, he maintained a critical attitude which served to stimulate French
Anglophobia
Anti-English sentiment or Anglophobia (from Latin ''Anglus'' "English" and Greek φόβος, ''phobos'', "fear") means opposition to, dislike of, fear of, hatred of, or the oppression and persecution of England and/or English people.''Oxford ...
. He was a frequent contributor to the ''
Revue des deux mondes
The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' (, ''Review of the Two Worlds'') is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829.
According to its website, "it is today the place for debates a ...
'', and published several books, the best known of which is his ''Études critiques et biographiques'' (1862).
Personal life
Lemoinne died in Paris in 1892.
Works
* ''Les Élections en Angleterre, lettres publiées dans le "Journal des débats"''. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1841
* ''Les Anglais dans le Caboul''. Paris: au bureau de la Revue des deux mondes, 1842
* ''Affaires de Rome''. Paris: E. Blanchard, 1850
* ''Letters of John Lemoinne'' n the Exhibition held in London in 1851 In: Lardner, Dionysius ''The Great Exhibition'', etc. 1852
* ''Études critiques et biographiques: Études critiques: Shakspeare, l'abbé Prévost, Goethe ...; Études biographiques: Brummel, O'Connel, Robert Peel, Haydon, Chateaubriand...''. Paris, 1852
* ''De l'intégrité de l'empire ottoman''. Paris: M. Lévy frères, 1853
* ''Le Passage du Nord''. Strasbourg: Treuttel et Würtz, 1854
* ''Nouvelles études critiques et biographiques''. Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1863
* "La colonie anglaise". In: ''Paris Guide'', 1868; ''Foreigners in Paris'', Berlin: Readux Books, 2016
* ''Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux par l’abbé Prévost''. Nouv. éd. précédée d’une étude par John Lemoinne''. Paris: Levy, 1900