biography
pronunciation:
[azah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1944)
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| biography:
| Essayist, born in Noordpeene, N France. A Normalien et Docteur ès Lettres, he taught at the College de France and the Sorbonne. He published critical studies on Leopardi (1913), Lamartine (1925), Stendhal (1927), a translation of Michelangelo (1929), and a two-volume Histoire de la Littérature Française, with Joseph Bédier. He was elected a member of the Académie Française. |
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