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ARSINE 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' Gautier, and he wrote in collaboration with Jules 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 Voltaire (1858) and his famous satirical Histoire du quarante et unieme fauteuil de l'academie francaise (1855); 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 influence of See also: Rachel, he was entrusted with the administration of the Theatre See also: Francais, a position he filled with unfailing tact and success until 1859, when he was made
inspector-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
.
Lemaitre, Arsene See also: Houssaye (1897), with a bibliography
.
His son, See also: HENRY HOUSSAYE (1848- ), the historian, was born in Paris
.
His 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 Siege de Paris en 52 ay
.
J,-C . (1876); and two volumes of miscellanies, 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 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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