Louis Gillet
French art historian and literary historian
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Born | Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (1876-12-11)11 December 1876 Paris, France |
Died | 1 July 1943(1943-07-01) (aged 66) Paris, France |
Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Language | French |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | Collège Stanislas de Paris École normale supérieure |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Subject | Art |
Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian.
Life
Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876.[1] He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the École normale supérieure. In 1900, he became a lecturer on the French at the University of Greifswald; from 1907 to 1909 he was a professor at the Université Laval in Montreal. He became an art critic in Paris, before entering the armed forces. Gillet contributed a number of article to the Catholic Encyclopedia.[2]
Works
- Raphaël, 1907
- Watteau, 1921
- Trois variations sur Claude Monet, 1927
- Esquisses anglaises, 1930
- Shakespeare, 1931
- Essais sur l'art français, 1937, dedicated to Bernard Berenson.
References
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- Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1634)
- François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1639)
- Jean Racine (1672)
- Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour (1699)
- Jean-François Leriget de La Faye (1730)
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1731)
- Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon (1762)
- Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin (1776)
- Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle (1804)
- Louis-Benoît Picard (1807)
- Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1829)
- Eugène Scribe (1834)
- Octave Feuillet (1862)
- Pierre Loti (1891)
- Paul-Albert Besnard (1924)
- Louis Gillet (1935)
- Paul Claudel (1946)
- Wladimir d'Ormesson (1956)
- Maurice Schumann (1974)
- Pierre Messmer (1999)
- Simone Veil (2008)
- Maurizio Serra (2020)
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