Émile Faguet

Émile Faguet ( born December 17, 1847 in La Roche- sur- Yon, Vendée, † June 7, 1916 in Paris) was a French literary critic and writer.

Life

Faguet received his education at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris and later moved to the École normale supérieure. He then worked for a time as a teacher in La Rochelle ( Charente- Maritime) and Bordeaux ( Gironde). Later, he accepted a call to Moulins ( Allier ).

1900 elected to the Académie française Faguet the successor of the late Victor Cherbuliez and took him into their ranks ( armchair 3). He himself followed, due to the First World War, in 1918 the politician Georges Clemenceau after.

Faguet married in 1916 in Paris Suzanne Travichon, but died in the same year. His final resting place he found in the cemetery of Montparnasse.

Works (selection)

• L' anticléricalisme. Paris 1906
• Émile Zola. Paris 1903.
• Gustave Flaubert. Paris 1899.
• Histoire de la littérature française depuis nos jours XVIIe siècle jusqu'a
• Questions politiques. Paris 1899.
• Vie de Jean -Jacques Rousseau. Paris 1911.