René Bazin

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

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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, 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.

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Other novels of great charm and delicacy followed:

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• ' (1890)
• ' (1892)
• ' (1893)
• ' (1894)
• ' (1897)
• ' (1899)
• ' (1901), an Alsatian story which was dramatized and acted in the following year
• ' (1903)
• ' (1903)
• ' (1905)
• ' (1907)
• ' (1908).
• ' (1914)
• ' (1917)
• ' (1919)
• ' and ' (1921)
• ' (1921)

', 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 ' appeared in 1906. He also wrote books of travel, including a ' (1891), ' (1892), ' (1896), and ' (1901). The book by which Bazin is best known to English and American readers is that on the Italy of his time, rendered into English under the title The Italians of To-Day (1904). After 1914 he produced a half dozen novels besides miscellaneous writings.New International Encyclopedia Les Nouveaux Oberlé (1919) is regarded as a masterpiece. René Bazin was admitted to the Académie française on April 28, 1904.

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René Bazin related Images and Photos (experimental)

René Cresté and Yvette Andréyor: Judex 1916

Albert Préjean and Renée Saint-Cyr: Toto 1933

René-Louis Lafforgue and Ludmilla Tchérina: Les Amants de Teruel 1962