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Sainte-Beuve became friendly with Hugo after publishing a favourable review of the author's work but later had an affair with Hugo's wife, Adèle Foucher, which resulted in their estrangement. Curiously, when Sainte-Beuve was made a member of the French Academy in 1845, the ceremonial duty of giving the reception speech fell upon Hugo.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 00:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Beuve undertook the education of her niece Doda and welcomed her when she took the veil to escape a forced marriage. Upon Beuve's death, Doda succeeded her aunt as abbess. [4] They are also said to be related to King Dagobert, presumably Dagobert I of Austrasia. Saint Beuve was the first abbess of Saint-Pierre-les-Dames in Reims. In 639, her ...
Many of its ideas, motifs and scenes were anticipated in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil (1896–1899), though the perspective and treatment there are different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve (1908–09).
The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve.
Sainte-Beuve-en-Rivière (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t bœv ɑ̃ ʁivjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography [ edit ]
In response, Adèle gradually ended her relationship with Sainte-Beuve. [9] Although he did consider leaving Adèle at one point, they remained married, and in later life, when living on the island of Guernsey, a kind of friendship grew up between the wife and the mistress. [10]
Contre Sainte-Beuve (French: [kɔ̃tʁ sɛ̃t bœv], "Against Sainte-Beuve") is an unfinished book of essays written by Marcel Proust between 1895 and 1900 and first published posthumously in 1954. The book was discovered, with its pages in order, amongst Proust's papers after his death.