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René Bazin (December 26, 1853 - July 20, 1932) was a French novelist.
Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became professor of law in the Catholic university there. He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, but he made his reputation with Une tache d'encre (A spot of ink) (1888), which received a prize from the Academy.
Other novels of great charm and delicacy followed:
- La Sarcelle bleue (1892)
- Madame Corentine (1893)
- Humble Amour (1894)
- De toute son âme (1897)
- La Terre qui meurt (1899)
- Les Oberlé (1901), an Alsatian story which was dramatized and acted in the following year
- L'Ame alsacienne (1903)
- Donatienne (1903)
- L'Isolée (1905)
- Le blé qui lève (1907)
- Mémoires d'une vieille fille (1908).
La Terre qui meurt, a picture of the decay of peasant farming and a story of La Vendée, was an indirect plea for the development of provincial France. A volume of Questions littéraires et sociales appeared in 1906. René Bazin was admitted to the Académie française on April 28, 1904.
Reference
- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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