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Louis Gillet (Paris, December 11th 1876 - Paris, July 1st 1943) is historian of art and historian of the French literature.

Biography

It enters in 1896 to the National university, where it becomes acquainted with Charles Péguy and Romain Roland; it maintains a long time with this last a correspondence now published. Impassioned inter alia by Italy which inspires to him by many works ( Saint François d' Assise , Raphaël ), it is also interested in the English literature, and devotes several studies to it, in particular on Shakespeare, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence.

He also writes for the Review of the two worlds , where he is specialist in the artistic questions.

November 21st, 1935, he is elected with the French Academy.

Louis Gillet wrote in an article dedicated " in the new master line of the ville" published in the review " Marseille" , in summer 1942:

" On the hill of Accoules, between the Town hall and the Major, list a subure obscene, one of the impurest cesspools where piles up the scum of the Mediterranean, sad glory of Marseilles, in a decrepitude and a degree of rot of which hardly, without to have seen it, one could have an idea; it seems that corruption gangrene to the stones. This wormeaten hell, this species of mass grave in decomposition, is one of the place of the world where tuberculosis makes more devastations. It is the empire of the sin and death. These districts, formerly experts, abandoned with the rabble, with misery and shame, which means of emptying them and of regenerating them? "

That deserved to be specified…

Works

Raphaël , 1907
Watteau , 1921
Three variations on Claude Monet , 1927
Test on French art , 1937

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