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