François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 â€" 4 August 1914) was
a French critic and dramatist.Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret.
He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was
already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned
his position to devote his time to literature. Lemaître succeeded
Jean-Jacques Weiss as drama critic of the Journal des Débats, and
subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His
literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains
(7 series, 1886â€"99), and his dramatic feuilletons as Impressions de
Théà tre (10 series, 1888â€"98). [1]Lemaître's sketches of modern
authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety
and originality of expression. He was admitted to the French Academy
on 16 January 1896. Lemaître's political views were defined in La
Campagne Nationaliste (1902), lectures delivered in the provinces by
him and by Godefroy Cavaignac.[1]Lemaître conducted a nationalist
campaign in the Écho de Paris, and was for some time president of the
Ligue de la Patrie Française.[1] The Ligue originated in 1898 with
three young academics, Louis Dausset, Gabriel Syveton and Henri
Vaugeois, who wanted to show that Dreyfusism was not accepted by all
at the University.[2] They launched a petition that attacked Émile
Zola and what many saw as an internationalist, pacifist left-wing
conspiracy.[3] Charles Maurras gained the interest of the writer
Maurice Barrès, and the movement gained the support of three eminent
personalities: the geographer Marcel Dubois, the poet François
Coppée and the critic and Jules Lemaître.[2]
a French critic and dramatist.Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret.
He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was
already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned
his position to devote his time to literature. Lemaître succeeded
Jean-Jacques Weiss as drama critic of the Journal des Débats, and
subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His
literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains
(7 series, 1886â€"99), and his dramatic feuilletons as Impressions de
Théà tre (10 series, 1888â€"98). [1]Lemaître's sketches of modern
authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety
and originality of expression. He was admitted to the French Academy
on 16 January 1896. Lemaître's political views were defined in La
Campagne Nationaliste (1902), lectures delivered in the provinces by
him and by Godefroy Cavaignac.[1]Lemaître conducted a nationalist
campaign in the Écho de Paris, and was for some time president of the
Ligue de la Patrie Française.[1] The Ligue originated in 1898 with
three young academics, Louis Dausset, Gabriel Syveton and Henri
Vaugeois, who wanted to show that Dreyfusism was not accepted by all
at the University.[2] They launched a petition that attacked Émile
Zola and what many saw as an internationalist, pacifist left-wing
conspiracy.[3] Charles Maurras gained the interest of the writer
Maurice Barrès, and the movement gained the support of three eminent
personalities: the geographer Marcel Dubois, the poet François
Coppée and the critic and Jules Lemaître.[2]
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