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RENE DOUMIC (186o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOUMIC (186o– )  , French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the ncole Normale began to teach rhetoric at the College Stanislas . He was a contributor to the Moniteur, the Journal
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des Debats and the Revue bleue, but was best known as the
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independent and uncompromising
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literary critic of the Revue des Deux.Mondes . His
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works, include : Elements d'histoire litteraire (1888); Portraits d'ecrivains (1892); De Scribe a Ibsen (1893); Ecrivains d'aujourd'hui (1894) ; Etudes sur la litterature francaise (5 vols., 1896-1905);
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Les Jeunes (1896); Essais sur le thedtre contemporain (1897); Les Hommes et les ideas du XIXesiecle (1903); and an edition of the Lettres d'Elvire d Lamartine (1905) .

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