The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 – 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic.

Biography

Seillière was born in

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, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the

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. He was elected a member of the

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in 1914. Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud,

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, Octave Aubry and

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) one of the five members of the

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elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by

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, succeeding Henri Lavedan. He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, and was the grandfather of Ernest-Antoine Seillière.

Works

* ''Étude sur Ferdinand Lassalle, fondateur du Parti Socialiste Allemand'' (1897) * ''Littérature et Morale dans le Parti Socialiste Allemand'' (1898) * ''La Philosophie de l'impérialisme'', 4 volumes: I. ''Le Comte de Gobineau et l'

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e historique'' (1903), II. ''Apollon ou Dionysos? Étude sur

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'' (1905), III. ''L'Impérialisme démocratique'' (1907), IV. ''Le Mal romantique - Essai sur l'impérialisme irrationnel'' (1908) * ''Une Tragédie d'Amour au Temps du Romantisme'' (1909) * ''Les Mystiques du Néoromantisme - Karl Marx, Tolstoï, les Pangermanistes'' (1910) * ''Barbey d'Aurevilly'' (1910) * ''Introduction à la Philosophie de l'Impérialisme'' (1911) * ''Schopenhauer'' (1912) * ''Mysticisme et Domination'' (1913) * ''Le Romantisme des Réalistes - Gustave Flaubert'' (1914) * ''L'Avenir de la Philosophie Bergsonienne'' (1917) * ''Un artisan d'énergie française, Pierre de Coubertin'' (1917) * ''

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'' (1923) * ''Psychoanalyse

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ienne ou psychologie impérialiste'' (1928) * '' Romantisme et démocratie romantique'' (1930) * ''

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historien des idées'' (1938) * ''Le Naturisme de

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et autres essais'' (1938) * ''Un précurseur du national-socialisme. L'actualité de Carlyle'' (1939)

Bibliography

* Seillière, Jean : Ernest Seillière - 1866 1966 - Centenaire De La Naissance. 1966. * Cazanove, Laetitia de : Ernest Seillière (1866-1955), théoricien de l'impérialisme et père du fascisme ?, Université de Paris X Nanterre, 2001 (Dir. Didier Musiedlak), 218 p.

External links

Académie française
in the ''Dictionnaire de la réception de

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