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