René Bazin

Template:Short description Template:Expand French Template:Infobox writer René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (26 December 1853 – 20 July 1932)<ref>Ryan, Mary (1932). "René Bazin 1853-1932," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 21, No. 84, p. 627.</ref> was a French novelist.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Biography

Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university.Template:Sfn In 1876, Bazin married Aline Bricard. The couple had two sons and six daughters. He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, and wrote Stephanette (1884), but he made his reputation with Une Tache d'Encre (A Spot of Ink) (1888), which received a prize from the Academy.<ref>Lavisse, Ernest (1905). Preface to The Ink-stain. Paris: Maison Mazarin, p. v.</ref> He was admitted to the Académie française on 28 April 1904,Template:Sfn to replace Ernest Legouvé.

René Bazin was a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and was President of the Corporation des Publicistes Chretiens.<ref>Hoehn, Matthew (1948). "René Bazin, 1853–1934." In: Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches. Newark, N.J.: St. Mary's Abbey, p. 34.</ref>

Works

Other novels:

• Template:Lang (1890; English tr., This, My Son, 1908)
• Template:Lang (1892)
• Template:Lang (1893; English tr., Those of his own Household, 1914)
• Template:Lang (1894)
• Template:Lang (1897; English tr., Redemption, 1908)
• Template:Lang (1899; English tr., Autumn Glory, 1901), a picture of the decay of peasant farming set in La Vendée; it was an indirect plea for the development of provincial France
• Template:Lang (1901; English tr., Children of Alsace), a story which was dramatized and acted in the following year
• Template:Lang (1903)
• Template:Lang (1903)
• Template:Lang (1905; English tr., The Nun, 1908)
• Template:Lang (1907; English tr., The Coming Harvest, 1908)
• Template:Lang (1908)
• La Barrière (1910; English tr., The Barrier)
• Davidée Birot (1912; English tr. by Mary D. Frost)
• Gingolph l'Abandonné (1914)
• Template:Lang (1917)
• Template:Lang (1919)
• Template:Lang (1919), regarded as a masterpiece by some
• Template:Lang and Template:Lang (1921)
• Template:Lang (1921; English tr., Charles de Foucauld, Hermit and Explorer, 1923)

A volume of Template:Lang appeared in 1906. He also wrote books of travel, including a Template:Lang (1891), Sicile (1892), Template:Lang (1896), and Template:Lang (1901). Template:Lang (1913). Bazin is known to English and American readers for rendering the Italy of his time, The Italians of To-Day (1904).

After 1914 he published two volumes of war sketches, Pages religieuses (1915) and Aujourd'hui et demain (1916).

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Further reading

• Coll, Jessie Pauline (1936). The Novels of René Bazin. University of Oklahoma.
• Doumic, René (1899). "René Bazin." In: Contemporary French Novelists. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, pp. 377–402.
• Gosse, Edmund (1905). "M. René Bazin." In: French Profiles. New York : Dodd, Mead and company, pp. 266–291.
• Mauriac, François (1931). René Bazin. Paris: F. Alcan.
• Moreau, Abel (1957). René Bazin. Paris: Caritas.
• Stimson, Henry A. (1904). "The Novels of René Bazin," The Booklovers Magazine, Vol. IV, pp. 745–747
• Waite, Alice Webber (1928). René Bazin: An Idealistic Realist. University of Nebraska (Lincoln Campus).

External links

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• Edmund Burke et la Révolution
• The René Bazin society in France
• René Bazin's works on the reference site Open Library