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ARSINE HOUSSAYE (1815-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOUSSAYE (1815-1896)  , See also:French novelist, poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Bruyeres (See also:Aisne), near Lao; on the 28th of See also:March 1815 . His real surname was Housset . In 1832 he found his way to See also:Paris, and in 1836 he published two novels, La Couronne de bluets and La Pecheresse . He had many See also:friends in Paris, among them Jules See also:Janin and See also:Theophile' See also:Gautier, and he wrote in collaboration with Jules See also:Sandeau . He produced See also:art 'See also:criticism in L'Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise (1846); semi-See also:historical sketches in Mlle de la Valliere et Mme de See also:Montespan (186o) and Galerie de portraits du X VIP siecle (1844); See also:literary criticism in Le Rai See also:Voltaire (1858) and his famous satirical Histoire du quarante et unieme fauteuil de l'academie francaise (1855); See also:drama in his Comediennes (1857); See also:poetry in his Symphonie See also:des vingt ans (1867), Cent et un sonnets (1873), &c.; and novels, See also:Les Filles d'See also:Eve (1852) and many others . In 1849, through the See also:influence of See also:Rachel, he was entrusted with the See also:administration of the See also:Theatre See also:Francais, a position he filled with unfailing tact and success until 1859, when he was made inspector-See also:general of See also:works of art . He died on the 26th of See also:February 1896. souvenir; d'un demi-siecle appeared in 1885- His Confessions, 1891 . See also J . See also:Lemaitre, Arsene See also:Houssaye (1897), with a bibliography . His son, See also:HENRY HOUSSAYE (1848- ), the historian, was born in Paris . His See also:early writings were devoted to classical antiquity, studied not only in books but on the actual See also:Greek sites which he visited in 1868 . He published successively Histoire d'See also:Apelles (1867), a study on Greek art; L'Armee clans la Grece See also:antique (1867); Histoire d'Alcibiade et de la republique athenienne depuis la mort de See also:Pericles jusqu'd l'avenement des trente tvrans (1873); Papers on Le Nombre des citoyens d'Athenes au ViAe siecle avant Pere chretienne (1882); La Loi agraire a Sparte (1884) ; Le Premier See also:Siege de Paris en 52 ay .

J,-C . (1876); and two volumes of miscellanies, See also:

Athens, See also:Rome, Paris, 1'histoire et lcs mceurs (1879), and Aspasie, Cleopatre, See also:Theodora (6th ed . 1889) . The military See also:history of See also:Napoleon I. then attracted him . His first See also:volume on this subject, called 1814 (1888), went through no fewer than See also:forty-six See also:editions . It was followed by 1815, the first See also:part of which comprises the first Restoration, the return from See also:Elba and the See also:Hundred Days (1893); the second part, See also:Waterloo (1899); and the third part, the second See also:abdication and the See also:White Terror (1905) . He was elected a member of the French See also:Academy in 1895 .

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