Saint-René Taillandier
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René Gaspard Ernest Taillandier (16 December 1817 – 22 February 1879), better known as Saint-René Taillandier, was a French writer and critic.
Life
Taillandier was born in Paris. He completed his studies in Heidelberg, and then became professor of literature successively in Strasbourg, Montpellier and at the Sorbonne, where he was nominated to the chair of French eloquence in 1868. Most of the articles included in his published volumes first appeared in the Revue des deux mondes.[1]
In January 1870 he became general secretary of the ministry of education, and continued in this office after the fall of the Empire. He became officer of the Legion of Honour in 1870, and was elected to the Académie française in 1873.
He died in Paris.[1]
Works
- Béatrice (1840)
- Scot Érigène (1843)
- Histoire de la jeune Allemagne. Études littéraires (1849)
- Études sur la révolution en Allemagne (1853)
- Allemagne et Russie, études historiques et littéraires (1856)
- Le Poète du Caucase, Michel Lermontoff (1856)
- Histoire et philosophie religieuse. Études et fragments (1859)
- Littérature étrangère. Écrivains et poètes modernes (1861)
- La Comtesse d'Albany (1862)
- Maurice de Saxe. Étude historique (1865)
- Pierre Corneille: étude historique (1865)
- Tchèques et Magyars. Bohême et Hongrie. xve–xixe siècle (1869)
- Le général de Berthier, Montpellier, de Gras (1870)
- Drames et romans de la vie littéraire (1871)
- La Serbie. Kara-George et Milosch (1872)
- Le Général Philippe de Ségur, sa vie et son temps (1875)
- Dix ans de l'histoire d'Allemagne. Origines du nouvel empire d'après la correspondance de Frédéric-Guillaume IV et du baron de Bunsen (1847-1857) (1875)
- Les Renégats de 89. Souvenirs du cours d'éloquence française à la Sorbonne (1877)
- Le Roi Léopold et la Reine Victoria (1878)
- Études littéraires (1881)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chisholm 1911.
- Attribution
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External links
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
- 1817 births
- 1879 deaths
- Writers from Paris
- Heidelberg University alumni
- University of Strasbourg faculty
- University of Montpellier faculty
- University of Paris faculty
- French literary critics
- Members of the Académie française
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- French male writers
