EUGENE

See also:

• EUGENE MANUEL (1823–1901)
• MANUEL, JACQUES ANTOINE (1775-1827)
• MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793)

MANUEL (1823–1901)  , French poet and man of letters, was born in Paris, the son of a Jewish doctor, on the 13th of July 1823 . He was educated at the 1 cole Normale, and taught rhetoric for some years in provincial schools and then in Paris . In 187o he entered the department of public instruction, and in 1878 became inspector-general . His 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-Lorraine by the German authorities; En voyage (1881), poems; La France (4 vols., 1854-1858); a school-book written in collaboration with his brother-in-law, Levi Alavares; Les Ouvriers (187o), a drama dealing with social questions, which was crowned by the Academy; L' Absent (1873), a comedy;Poesies du foyer et de l'ecole (1889), and 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 prose (Paris, 1905) is prefixed an introductory note by A . Cahen .