Paul Bourget
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Paul Bourget was a French writer, playwright, and critic who lived from 1852 to 1935 and was influential in late 19th and early 20th-century literature. He is remembered for his contributions to French letters through his novels, plays, and critical works that shaped literary discourse during his era.
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Paul Charles Joseph Bourget ( French: [buʁʒɛ]; 2 September 1852 – 25 December 1935) was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Paul Bourget was born in Amiens, France. He initially abandoned Catholicism but eventually returned to it in the late 19th century. Bourget is known for his psychological and moralistic novels that often portrayed the complex emotions of women and the ideas, passions, and failures of young men in France. Some of his notable works include Le Disciple (1889), a bestseller that explored the consequences of materialism and positivism, and other novels such as Cruelle énigme (1885), André Cornelis (1886), and Mensonges (1887). He was admitted to the Académie Française in 1894 and was promoted to be an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1895.
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