Louis Gillet
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Born | Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet 11 December 1876 Paris, France |
Died | 1 July 1943 Paris, France | (aged 66)
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
- Essais sur l'art français, 1937, dedicated to Bernard Berenson.
References[]
- ^ "Actes de naissance". Archives de l'état civil de Paris (in French) (11/5286/1876): 3. 14 December 1876. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, 1917, p. 66
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Categories:
- 1876 births
- 1943 deaths
- Writers from Paris
- French literary historians
- French art historians
- Members of the Académie Française
- Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- French male non-fiction writers
- Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia
- French historian stubs