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ALEXANDRE RODOLPHE VINET (1791-1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 97 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDRE RODOLPHE See also:VINET (1791-1847)  , See also:French critic and theologian, of Swiss See also:birth, was See also:born near See also:Lausanne on the 17th of See also:June 1797 . He was educated for the See also:Protestant See also:ministry, being ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French See also:language and literature in the gymnasium at See also:Basel; and during the whole of his See also:life he was as much a critic as a theologian . His See also:literary See also:criticism brought him into contact with Sainte-Beuve, for whom he procured an invitation to lecture at Lausanne, which led to his famous See also:work on See also:Port-Royal . See also:Vinet's Chrestomathie fran4aise (1829), his Etudes sur la litterature fran4aise au XIX"'e siecle (1849-51), and his Histoire de la litterature fran4aise au X VIIP"e siecle, together with his Etudes sur See also:Pascal, Etudes sur See also:les moralistes aux X et X VII"'° siecles, Histoire de la See also:predication parmi les Reformes de See also:France and other kindred See also:works, gave See also:evidence of a wide knowledge of literature, a sober and acute literary See also:judgment and a distinguished See also:faculty of appreciation .

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