René Bazin

René Bazin
Born	(1853-12-26)26 December 1853 Angers, France
Died	20 July 1932(1932-07-20) (aged 78) Paris, France

René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (26 December 1853 – 20 July 1932) was a French novelist.

Biography

Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. 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.

He was admitted to the Académie française on 28 April 1904.

Works

Other novels:

• Les Noëllet (1890)
• La Sarcelle bleue (1892)
• Madame Corentine (1893)
• Humble Amour (1894)
• De toute son âme (1897)
• La Terre qui meurt (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
• Les Oberlé (1901; English tr., Children of Alsace), a story which was dramatized and acted in the following year
• L'Âme alsacienne (1903)
• Donatienne (1903)
• L'Isolée (1905)
• Le blé qui lève (1907)
• Mémoires d'une vieille fille (1908)
• Davidée Birot (1912)
• Gingolph l'abandonné (1914)
• Mémoires d'une vieille fille (1914)
• La Closerie de Champsdolent (1917)
• Récits du Temps de Guerre (1919)
• Les Nouveaux Oberlé (1919), regarded as a masterpiece by some
• Le Mariage de Mlle. Gimel; La Barriére; La Douce France; Histoire de vingt quatre sonnettes; and Ferdinand Jacques Hervé Bazin (1921)
• Charles de Foucauld, Explorateur (1921)

A volume of Questions littéraires et sociales appeared in 1906. He also wrote books of travel, including a À l'aventure (1891), Sicile (1892), Terre d'Espagne (1896), and Croquis de France et d'Orient (1901). Nord-Sud Amérique, etc. (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).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bazin, René". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
•  "Bazin, René". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). 1922. 
• New International Encyclopedia

External links

• Works by René Bazin at Project Gutenberg
• Online works in French on Ebooks
• The René Bazin society in France
• René Bazin's works on the reference site Open Library