Alfred Mézières

Alfred Jean François Wall , born with Réhon (Meurthe-et-Moselle) the November 19th 1826 and died in Réhon the October 10th 1915, is a historian of the literature, journalist and politician French.

Biography

Wire of a former vice-chancellor of the academy of Metz, Alfred Mézières makes his studies with the college of Metz then to the National university where it enters in 1845. He takes part in the revolution of 1848 then is named with the French École of Athens, before passing his doctorate of letters and becoming professor of rhetoric to the college of Toulouse in 1853. The Faculty of Arts of Nancy charges it with the course of foreign literature in 1854, then it is named professor of foreign literature to the Sorbonne in 1861. It publishes studies on Shakespeare, Pétrarque, Dante and Goethe and is elected with the French Academy on January 29th 1874. It represents the University of Paris to the jubilees of Shakespeare in 1864 and Dante in 1865. It also chairs the council of the conservatives of the Condé museum Chantilly.

It is used as officer in a battalion of walk during the war as 1870. In 1874, it is elected general adviser of the canton of Longwy. Beaten with the delegation in 1877, he is elected in 1881 appointed Meurthe-et-Moselle and constantly re-elected 1885 with 1898. Sitting with the opportunist left, it is interested especially in the literary, industrial and military questions, chairing the commission of the army of the House of Commons. In 1900, it is elected senator de Meurthe-et-Moselle with the favor of a by-election (it will be replaced with the Room by Albert Lebrun). Sitting at the center left, it continues to work on the military questions. Re-elected in 1906, he becomes vice-president of the commission of the army of the Senate.

Journalist, it takes part in the foundation of the newspaper Time in 1864 and chairs the association of the Parisian journalists.

In August 1914, the war surprises it in its native village of Réhon. It installs a dispensary in its property. In September 1914, the Germans occupy his house and prohibit to him to return to Paris. During fourteen months and in spite of the interventions of neutral ambassadors of country, in particular those of Spain in Germany, he is regarded as an hostage. The October 3rd 1915, it is finally authorized to leave in exchange a captive German consul, but it dies on October 10th, 1915.

Works

De Fluminibus inferorum, thesim proponebat Facultati litterarum parisiensi (1853)
Study on political works of Paul Paruta (1853)
Memories on Pélion and Ossa (1853)
Description of Laconie (1853)
Shakespeare, its works and its criticisms (1860)
Predecessors and contemporaries of Shakespeare (1863)
Contemporary and successors of Shakespeare (1864)
the Jubilee of Shakespeare, memories of Stratford-on-Avon (1864)
Dante and new Italy (1865)
Pétrarque (1868)
the French company: the peasant, the workman, middle-class; aristocracy; women, studies morals over time present (1869)
the Head office of Strasbourg in 1870 (1870)
Accounts of the invasion: Alsace and Lorraine (1871)
W. Goethe: The works explained by the life (1872-1873)
moral Education and civics with the use of the elementary schools (1883)
In France, XVIIIe and XIXe centuries (1883)
Out of France. Italy, Spain, England, modern Greece (1883, 1907)
the College Holy-Bores and the university reforms (1885)
Morale and fatherland, readings with the use of the elementary schools (1885)
Vie of Mirabeau (1892)
Morts and alive (1897)
At last time (1906)
Hommes and women of yesterday and day before yesterday (1907)
Silhouettes of soldiers (1907)
Of a little (1909)
Sites forsaken of the East (1911)
Ultima verba (1914)

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