René Bazin
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René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (26 December 1853 – 20 July 1932) was a French novelist.
Born at Angers
, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, and wrote Stephanette (1884), but he made his reputation with Une tache d'encre (A spot of ink) (1888), which received a prize from the Academy.
Other novels followed:
, a picture of the decay of peasant farming and a story of La Vendée, was an indirect plea for the development of provincial France. A volume of appeared in 1906. He also wrote books of travel, including a (1891), (1892), (1896), and (1901). Bazin is known to English and American readers for rendering the Italy of his time, The Italians of To-Day (1904). After 1914 he produced a half dozen novels besides miscellaneous writings.New International Encyclopedia
Les Nouveaux Oberlé (1919) is regarded as a masterpiece.
René Bazin was admitted to the Académie française
on 28 April 1904.
Born at Angers
Angers
Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....
, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, and wrote Stephanette (1884), but he made his reputation with Une tache d'encre (A spot of ink) (1888), which received a prize from the Academy.
Other novels followed:
- (1890)
- (1892)
- (1893)
- (1894)
- (1897)
- (1899), in English: Autumn Glory (1901)
- (1901), in English: Children of Alsace, a story which was dramatized and acted in the following year
- (1903)
- (1903)
- (1905)
- (1907)
- (1908).
- (1914)
- (1917)
- (1919)
- and (1921)
- (1921)
, a picture of the decay of peasant farming and a story of La Vendée, was an indirect plea for the development of provincial France. A volume of appeared in 1906. He also wrote books of travel, including a (1891), (1892), (1896), and (1901). Bazin is known to English and American readers for rendering the Italy of his time, The Italians of To-Day (1904). After 1914 he produced a half dozen novels besides miscellaneous writings.New International Encyclopedia
New International Encyclopedia
The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.-History:...
Les Nouveaux Oberlé (1919) is regarded as a masterpiece.
René Bazin was admitted to the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
on 28 April 1904.