Paul Bourget

scrittore e saggista francese (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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Paul Bourget (Amiens, 2 settembre 1852 – Parigi, 25 dicembre 1935) è stato uno scrittore e saggista francese, membro dell'Académie française dal 1894. Études et portraits, 1889. Da BEIC, biblioteca digitale Si pose in polemica rispetto alle correnti culturali e letterarie predominanti in quel periodo: il naturalismo e il razionalismo. Egli trovava che tali correnti riducessero la vita spirituale al solo aspetto deterministico escludendo così aspetti molto più importanti.Ebbe notevole fama in tutta Europa grazie ai suoi romanzi, fra i quali I nostri atti ci seguono e Il senso della morte.

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