André Beaunier (22 September 1869,

Évreux Évreux () is a commune in and the capital of the department of Eure, in the French region of Normandy. Geography The city is on the Iton river. Climate History In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named ...

– 9 December 1925, Paris) was a French novelist and literary critic.

Life

The son of an '

avoué During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...

' (legal official) in Évreux, Beaunier entered the

École normale supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education sca ...

in 1890. He was the literary reviewer for the '' Revue des deux Mondes'' in 1912 then editor and drama critic for ''

l'Écho de Paris ''L'Écho de Paris'' was a daily newspaper in Paris from 1884 to 1944. The paper's editorial stance was initially conservative and nationalistic, but it later became close to the French Social Party. Its writers included Octave Mirbeau, Henri ...

'' in 1916. During the 1920s he lived in

Le Vésinet Le Vésinet () is a suburban commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is a part of the affluent outer suburbs of western Paris, from the centre of Paris. In 2019, it had a population of 15,943 ...

. In 1908 he married opera singer Jeanne Raunay. He died suddenly in December 1925.Sorday, Paul. "M. André Beaunier, Critic and Skeptic" ''The New York Times'' (January 3, 1926): BR11. via ProQuest.

Works

* ''Les Dupont-Leterrier'', Paris, 1900 * ''La Poésie nouvelle'', Paris, 1902 * ''Bonshommes de Paris'', Paris, 1902 * ''L'Art de regarder les tableaux'', Émile Lévy, Paris, 1906 * ''Éloges'', Paris, 1909 * ''Les Idées et les Hommes'', Plon-Nourrit, Paris * ''Les Limites du cœur'', Fasquelle, Paris, 1910 * ''Les Carnets de Joseph Joubert'' * ''La Crise'', three-act comedy, co-written with

Paul Bourget Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (; 2 September 185225 December 1935) was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Life Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme ''département'' of Picar ...

(Premiered at

Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin The Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin is a venerable theatre and opera house at 18, Boulevard Saint-Martin in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. History It was first built very rapidly in 1781 under the direction of (1726–1810) to house t ...

, 3 May 1912) * ''Suzanne et le plaisir'', 1921

References

1869 births 1925 deaths 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers French literary critics People from Évreux Writers from Normandy French male non-fiction writers {{France-novelist-19thC-stub