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EUGENE MANUEL (1823–1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 609 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUGENE MANUEL (1823–1901)  , French poet and man of letters, was born in Paris, the son of a Jewish doctor, on the 13th of
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July 1823 . He was educated at the 1 cole Normale, and taught rhetoric for some years in provincial
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schools and then in Paris . In 187o he entered the department of public instruction, and in 1878 became inspector-general . His
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works include: Pages intimes (1866), which received a prize from the Academy; Fames populaires (1874); Pendant la guerre (1871), patriotic poems, which were forbidden in Alsace-
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Lorraine by the German authorities; En voyage (1881), poems; La France (4 vols., 1854-1858); a school-
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book written in collaboration with his
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brother-in-law, Levi Alavares;
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Les Ouvriers (187o), a drama dealing with social questions, which was crowned by the Academy; L' Absent (1873), a
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comedy;Poesies du foyer et de l'ecole (1889), and
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editions of the works of J . B . Rousseau (1852) and Andre Chenier (1884) . He died in Paris in 1901 . His Poesies completes (2 vols., 1899) contained some fresh poems; to his Melanges en
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prose (Paris, 1905) is prefixed an
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introductory note by A . Cahen .

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