René Doumic

René Doumic ( born March 7, 1860 in Paris, † December 2, 1937 ) was a French literary historian and critic.

Doumic attended the Lycée Condorcet and studied at the École normale supérieure. From 1883 to 1897 he taught at the Collège Stanislas rhetoric and began a career in journalism. For a number of journals such as the Journal of the débats, the Correspondant and the Revue des Deux Mondes, which he headed from 1916 to 1937.

1907, the recording Doumics had failed in the Académie française. For this he was in 1909 in the election to succeed the late historian Gaston Boissier just against Denys Cochin prevail ( fauteuil 26). He himself followed in 1938, the writer André Maurois according to this place.

1923 Doumic entrusted you with the Office of Secrétaire perpétuel the Académie française.

Works

• Éléments d' histoire littéraire (1888 )
• Portraits d' écrivains. Alexandre Dumas fils, Émile Augier, Victorien Sardou, Octave Feuillet, Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, Émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet (1892 )
• De Scribe à Ibsen (1893 )
• Écrivains d' aujourd'hui. Paul Bourget, Guy de Maupassant, Pierre Loti, Jules Lemaître, Ferdinand Brunetière, Émile Faguet, Ernest Lavisse (1894 )
• Études sur la littérature française (5 volumes, 1896-1905 )
• Les Jeunes, Etudes et portraits (1896 )
• Essais sur le théâtre contemporain (1897 )
• Les Hommes et les idées du XIXe siècle (1903 )
• George Sand. Dix conférences sur sa vie et son œuvre (1909 )
• Lamartine (1912 )
• Saint -Simon, Louis XIV de la France (1919)