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Émile Faguet

Émile Faguet
Portrait of Faguet, by Henri Mannes
Born	Auguste Émile Faguet (1847-12-17)17 December 1847 La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée
Died	7 June 1916(1916-06-07) (aged 68) Paris
Occupation	Literary critic, and author
Alma mater	École normale supérieure
Notable works	The Cult of Incompetence
Spouse	Suzanne Travichon

Auguste Émile Faguet (French pronunciation: [emil faɡɛ]; 17 December 1847 – 7 June 1916) was a French author and literary critic.^[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris. After teaching for some time in La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. Faguet became professor in 1897. He was elected to the Académie française in 1900, and received the ribbon of the Légion d'honneur in the next year.^[3]

Faguet acted as dramatic critic to the Soleil; from 1892 he was literary critic to the Revue Bleue; and in 1896 took the place of Jules Lemaître on the Journal des débats.^[3] Faguet died in Paris, aged 68.

Works[edit]

In English translation

• Politicians & Moralists of the Nineteenth Century (1899).
• A Literary History of France (1907).^[5][6]
• "French Seventeenth Century Literature and its European Influence." In: The Cambridge Modern History (1908).
• The Cult of Incompetence (1911).
• Balzac (1914).
• Flaubert (1914).
• The Dread of Responsibility (1914).^[7][8]
• Initiation into Literature (1914).
• Initiation into Philosophy (1914).
• On Reading Nietzsche (1918).

Selected articles

• "Mme de Staël," Revue des Deux Mondes 83, 1887.
• "M. Ferdinand Brunetière," La Revue de Paris 1, 1894.
• "Le Livre a Paris," Cosmopolis 5, 1897.
• "Mesdames, Bientot au Vote!," La Revue des Deux Frances 4, 1898.
• "Corrections de Flaubert", La Revue Bleue, 3 June 1899.
• "All About a Hat," The Living Age 8, September 1900.
• "The Symbolical Drama," The International Quarterly 8, September 1903/March 1904.
• "Andrew Lang's 'The Mysteries of History'," The Sewanee Review 16, 1908.
• "Philosophie Scientifique." In: Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits, 1909.
• "La Vie de Nietzsche," Revue des Deux Mondes 58, 1910.
• "Essais et Notices," Revue des Deux Mondes, LXXXe Année, 1910.
• "François Maynard," Revue des Pyrénées 23, 1911.
• "Viele-Griffin," La Revue Bleue, 15 April 1912.
• "Thiers," Revue des Deux Mondes, XCe Année, 1920.
• "On the Nature of the Dramatic Emotion," The Tulane Drama Review 3 (2), 1958.

Miscellany

• Preface to Guillaume Guizot's Montaigne: Études et Fragments (1899).
• Introduction to Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes (1900).
• Preface to Édouard Ruel's Du Sentiment Artistique dans la Morale de Montaigne (1901).
• Preface to Séché & Bertaut's L'Évolution du Théâtre Contemporain (1908).
• Preface to Joseph Grasset's The Marvels Beyond Science (1910).
• Preface to André Gayot's Une Ancienne Muscadine, Fortunée Hamelin (1911).
• Preface to Arthur Meyer's Ce Que Mes Yeux On Vu (1911).
• Preface to Jean Harmand's A Keeper of Royal Secrets: Being the Private and Political Life of Madame De Genlis (1913).
• Introduction to Pierre Marivaux's Théâtre (1915).
• Introduction to Lessage's Gil Blas (n.d.)
• Introduction to Paul Courier's Lettres et Pamphlets (n.d.)
• Introduction to Alfred de Musset's Poésies (n.d.)

See also[edit]

• Francisque Sarcey

References[edit]

^ ^{a b}  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Faguet, Émile". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 125.

Further reading[edit]

• Bordeaux, Henry (1924). Portraits d'Hommes. Paris: Plon-Nourrit & Cie.
• Duval, Maurice (1911). Émile Faguet, le Critique, le Moraliste, le Sociologue. Paris: Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Libraire.
• Dyrkton, Joerge (1996). "The Liberal Critic as Ideologue: Émile Faguet and fin-de-siècle Reflections on the Eighteenth Century," History of European Ideas, Vol. 22, Nos. 5–6, pp. 321–336.
• Gourmont, Remy de (1909). "Le Musset des Familles", Promenades Littéraires, 3e Série.
• Scheifley, William H. (1917). Brieux and Contemporary French Society. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
• Séché, Alphonse (1904). Emile Faguet. Paris: Sansot.
• Wilmotte, Maurice (1907). Trois Semeurs d'Idées: Agénor de Gasparin, Emile de Laveleye, Emile Faguet. Paris: Fischbacher.

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