Paul Bourget

French writer, playwright and critic (1852–1935)

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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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Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France

Paul Bourget was a French novelist and critic who was a master of the psychological novel and a molder of opinion among French conservative intellectuals in the pre-World War I period. After completing his studies in philosophy, Bourget began his career as a poet, and several of his poems were set to music by Claude Debussy. Encouraged and deeply influenced by the critic Hippolyte Taine, he…

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Instance of: human
Given name: Paul
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Amiens
Place of death: Paris
Occupation: journalist
Position held: president
Political party: Action Française
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Religion: Catholicism
Student of: Eugène Despois
Genre: thesis novel
Image: PaulBourget.jpg
Work location: Paris

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writing language: French
place of burial: Montparnasse Cemetery
Commons category: Paul Bourget
date of death: 1935-12-25
date of birth: 1852-01-01
member of: Ligue de la Patrie Française‏
Commons Creator page: Paul Bourget
Commons gallery: Paul Bourget
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
name in native language: Paul Bourget
ethnic group: French
start of work period: 1874-00-00
interested in: art
influenced by: Hippolyte Taine
partnership with: Revue des Deux Mondes
pseudonym: Junius
has written for: Revue des Deux Mondes
archives at: Catholic University of Paris

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29 objects attributed to Paul Bourget, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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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