biography
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Lemaitre, (François-Elie-) Jules
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pronunciation:
[luhmetr]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1914)
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| biography:
| Writer and critic, born in Vennecy, C France. A Normalien, he resigned his post as professor at the University of Grenoble to devote himself to writing, publishing Parnassian poetry at first. His criticisms were collected in Les Contemporains (7 vols, 1885–99) and Impressions de Théâtre (10 vols, 1888–98). He also wrote authoratative collections of lectures. Among his best plays are Revoltée (1889), Les rois (1893), and La Massière (1904), and his collected stories include Serenus (1886) and En marge des vieux livres (1905–7). He led a nationalist campaign and after the failure of ‘La Ligue de la Patrie Française’, of which he was leader, he entered the ranks of ‘Action Française’ in the spirit of works such as Un Nouvel etat d'esprit (1904). |
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