MARC

MONNIER (1827-1885)  , French writer, was born at Florence on the 7th of December 1827 . His father was French, and his mother a Genevese; he received his early education in Naples, he then studied in Paris and Geneva, and he completed his education at Heidelberg and Berlin . He became professor of comparative literature at Geneva, and eventually vice-rector of the university . He died at Geneva on the 18th of April 1885 . He wrote a series of short, satirical, dramatic sketches collected as Theatre de marionettes (1871), and stories, notably Nouvelles napolitaines (1879), numerous works on Italian history, a translation of Goethe's Faust, Geneve et ses pates (1873), &e . The first volume of his Histoire de la liteerature moderne, La Renaissance, de Dante d Luther (1884), was crowned by the French Academy . See E . Rambert, Ecrivains nationaux suisses, vol. i . (Geneva, 1874) .