Leon Crouslé

François-Leon Crouslé , known as Leon Crouslé as an author and a François Crouslé as a teacher, born on May 29th, 1830 and dead on March 4th, 1903, was a university French specialist in Fénelon, Bossuet and Voltaire. He was professor of rhetoric to the Faculty of Arts of Paris and defended the place of French rhetoric in literary teaching against the will of other reforming academics like Ernest Renan.

Career

Responsible for rhetoric in several colleges of province (Tarbes, Laval, Dismiss, Rouen), he then teaches with the Louis-the-Large Lycée, the Lycée Charlemagne and the National university.

In 1879, he becomes professor with the Faculty of Arts of Paris.

Publications

Lessing and French taste in Germany , thesis presented to the Faculty of Arts of Paris, A. Durand, 1863
Grammar of the French language , Paris, 1893
Of pessimism in poetry , Faivre & Teillard, Paris, 1894
Fénelon and Bossuet , Paris, 1895
Life and Works of Voltaire , Editions Honore Champion, Paris, 1899,2 vol.
Bossuet and Protestantism , Paris, 1901

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Lucrèce, Of rerum will natura , 1871

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