TAILLANDIER  ,

SAINT-RENE (1817-1879), French critic, whose original name was Rene Gaspard Ernest Taillandier, was born in Paris on the 16th of December 1817 . He completed his studies at Heidelberg, and then became professor of literature successively at Strassburg, Montpellier and the Sorbonne, where he was nominated to the chair of French eloquence in 1868 . Most of the articles included in his published volumes first appeared in the Revue des deux mondes . In January 1870 he became general secretary of the ministry of education, and continued in this office after the fall of the Empire . He became officer of the Legion of Honour in 1870, and was elected to the Academy in 1873 . He died in Paris on the 22nd of February 1879 . His works include:—Allemagne et Russie, etudes historiques et litteraires (1856), Le Poete du Caucase . Michel Lermontoff (1856), Maurice de Saxe (2 vols . 1865), Tcheques et Magyars (1869), Le General Philippe de Segur '(1815) .