JULES See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

GABRIEL See also:

• JULES GABRIEL JANIN (1804-1874)

JANIN (1804-1874)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French critic, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at St See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

Etienne (See also:

• LOIRE

Loire) on the 16th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1804, and died near See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 19th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1874 . His See also:

• FATHER

father was a lawyer, and he was well educated, first at St Etienne, and then at the lycee See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis-le-See also:

• GRAND

Grand in Paris . He betook himself to journalism very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early, and worked on the See also:

• FIGARO

Figaro, the Quotidienne, &c., until in 1830 he became dramatic critic of the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal See also:

• DES

des Debats . See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

Long before this, however, he had made a considerable See also:

• LITERARY

literary reputation, for which indeed his See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange novel L'Ane mort et la femme See also:

• GUILLOTINE

guillotine (1829) would have sufficed . La See also:

• CONFESSION (Lat. confessio, from confiteor, acknowledge, confess)

Confession (1830), which followed, was less remarkable in substance but even more so in See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style; and in See also:

• BARNAVE, ANTOINE PIERRE JOSEPH MARIE (1761-1793)

Barnave (1831) he attacked the See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans See also:

• FAMILY

family . From the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, however, when See also:

• JANIN, JULES GABRIEL (1804-1874)

Janin became the theatrical critic of the Debats, though he continued to write books indefatigably, he was to most Frenchmen a dramatic critic and nothing more . He was outrageously inconsistent, and judged things from no See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general point of view whatsoever, though his See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment was usually See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good-natured . Few journalists have ever been masters of a more attractive See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion of saying the first thing that came into their heads . After many years of See also:

• FEUILLETON (a diminutive of the Fr. feuillet, the leaf of a book)

feuilleton See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing he collected some of his articles in the See also:

• WORK

work called Histoire de la litterature dramatique en See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France (1853—1858), which by no means deserves its See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title . In 1865 he made his first See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt upon the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, but was not successful till five years later . Meanwhile he had not been content with his feuilletons, written persistently about all manner of things . No one was more in See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request with the Paris publishers for prefaces, letterpress to illustrated books and such trifles .

He travelled (picking up in one of his journeys a curious windfall, a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house at See also:

• LUCCA (anc. Luca)
• LUCCA, BAGNI DI (Baths of Lucca, formerly Bagno a Corsena)

Lucca, in a lottery), and wrote accounts of his travels; he wrote numerous tales and novels, and composed many other See also:

• WORKS

works, of which by far the best is the Fin d'un monde at du neveu de See also:

• RAMEAU, JEAN PHILIPPE (1683-1764)

Rameau (1861), in which, under the See also:

• GUISE
• GUISE, HOUSE OF

guise of a sequel to See also:

• DIDEROT, DENIS (1713-1784)

Diderot's See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master-piece, he showed his See also:

• GREAT

great familiarity with the See also:

• LATE

late 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . He married in 1841; his wife had See also:

• MONEY

money, and he was always in easy circumstances . In the early See also:

• PART

part of his career he had many quarrels, notably one with See also:

• FELIX
• FELIX, ANTONIUS
• FELIX, LIA (1830– )

Felix See also:

• PYAT, FELIX (1810-1889)

Pyat (1810-1889), whom he prosecuted successfully for See also:

• DEFAMATION (from the classical Lat. diffamare, to spread abroad an evil report—the English form in de is taken from the Late Lat. defamare)

defamation of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . For the most part his work is See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere improvisation, and has few elements of vitality except a See also:

• LIGHT

light and vivid style . His Euvres choisies (12 vols., 1875-1878)were edited by A. de la Fitzeliere . A study on Janin with a bibliography was published by A . Piedagnel in 1874 . See also Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, ii. and v., and Gustave See also:

• PLANCHE, JEAN BAPTISTE GUSTAVE (1808–1857)

Planche, Portraits litteraires .