biography
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Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
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pronunciation:
[sĩt boev]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1804–69)
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| biography:
| Literary critic, born in Boulogne, NW France. He studied at Paris, trained in medicine, then turned to writing. He produced several volumes of poetry, and in the Revue de Paris (1829) began his Causeries, longer critical articles on French literature. His major works include several books of ‘portraits’ of literary contemporaries. His single novel, Volupté, appeared in 1835. In 1840 he became keeper of the Mazarin Library, and in 1848 professor of French literature at Liège. Nominated a senator in 1865, his speeches in favour of liberty of thought earned him great popularity. |
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