Jules Lemaitre

François Élie Jules Lemaitre (or Lemaître) is a writer and dramatic Critique French born with Vennecy (Loiret), the April 27th 1853 and died with Tavers (Loiret) the August 5th 1914.

Biography

Former student of the National university and aggregate of letters in 1875, Jules Lemaitre was successively professor of rhetoric to the college of the Havre, university lecturer at the University of the letters of Algiers in 1880, part-time lecturer of French literature to the Faculty of Arts of Besancon in 1882 and professor with that of Grenoble in 1883.

Collaborator of the blue Review and of the Time , it made known himself like dramatic criticism with the Journal of DEBATEs . Its criticisms were collected in the Contemporaries (7 series, 1886 - 1899) and Impressions of theater (10 series, 1888 - 1898). In 1884, it renonça with teaching to devote itself exclusively to the literature.

Testing itself with the theater, it gave Révoltée to the Odéon, the Deputy Leveau with the Vaudeville and the Phony marriage with the Th3e4atre Fran1cais. It also published tales, news, a novel ( the Kings ), and poetries.

In the years 1880 - 1885, it became acquainted with Madam de Loynes, its elder fifteen years. She was going to become the woman of her life and centers it to him of its living room at the same time as the instrument of its political ambition. It is under its impulse that Lemaitre took part in 1899 in the foundation of the Ligue of the French fatherland, intended to make countryside for the recognition of the culpability of the captain Dreyfus, and of which he became the president. In this quality, he made many speeches and collaborated in the Echo of Paris . He resigned in 1904. He belonged then to the French Action as of his creation in 1908, which coincided with the death of Madam de Loynes.

He was elected with the French Academy on June 20th 1895 to replace Victor Duruy.

Its burial is in the cemetery of Tavers (Loiret).

Judgment of a contemporary

Poetic works of Mr. Jules Lemaitre passed about unperceived to their appearance and its forgotten today; its novels, either, never made great noise and its plays, always accommodated favorably however, seldom fixed success; but its work of literary and dramatic criticism established its reputation. Writer full with liveliness, it deploys, in his analyzes, all the resources of a spirit shining and an abundant style; he amuses the reader and often charms, but it seldom manages to convince it; always playing with the ideas, being given up with all the whims of its imagination and avoiding emitting too absolute opinions, it seems to attach itself only one tiny importance to its judgments. “It is whimsical which has fun,” of him Mr. G. Lanson said.

Works

; Poetry
  • the Medallions , poetries (1880)
  • Small Eastern , poetries (1883)
; Critical
  • the Comedy after Molière and the theater of Dancourt , thesis presented to the Faculty of Arts of Paris (1882)
  • Quomodo Cornelius noster Aristotelis poeticam sit interpretatus , thesis presented to the Faculty of Arts of Paris (1882)
  • the Contemporaries (7 series, 1886 - 1899)
  • Impressions of theater (10 series, 1888 - 1898)
  • Imagier, studies and portraits contemporary (1892)
  • Jean Root (1908)
  • Fénelon (1910)
  • Châteaubriand (1912)
  • Sins of Holy-Beuve (1913)
; Theater ; Varied
  • Sérénus, history of a martyr. Tales of formerly and today (1886)
  • Ten tales (1890)
  • the Kings , novel (1893)
  • Freemasonry (1899)
  • white Tales: the Bell; the white Vault; Phony marriage (1900)
  • In margin of the old books , tales (1905)
  • the Old age of Helene. New tales strokes of it (1914)

Residences

  • Street of Artois

  • Street Gay-Lussac
  • 62, rue de Rome
  • 39, rue des Écuries- d' Artois, at the ground floor (today street of Artois)

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