Paul-Armand Silvestre

Paul -Armand Silvestre ( born April 18, 1837 in Paris, † February 19, 1901 in Toulouse ) was a French writer and literary critic.

Silvestre studied at the École polytechnique with the intention to make later career in the army. This study he was able to conclude in 1859, but his career as an officer was not fulfilled. In 1870 he got a job at the Treasury and could succeed so successful that he was inducted into the Legion of Honor in 1896 there.

In the same year he was called to Silvestre " Inspecteur des Beaux -Arts ". At that time he was already friends with some well-known representatives of the Parnassian. At the latest when Alphonse Lemerre asked him to cooperate in the later became famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain, he was one of these.

Eight weeks before his 64th birthday died Paul -Armand Silvestre after a brief illness on February 19, 1901 in Toulouse.

Works (selection)

• La chanson des heures. 1878
• Le chemin des étoiles. 1885
• Les Renaissances. 1870
• Rimes neuves ett vieilles. 1866

• Sappho. Drame. 1881
• Henri VIII (music by Camille Saint- Saëns )
• Drames sacres (music by Charles Gounod )