Critical literary person born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Charles-Auguste Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) begin with poetry (Odes, Life poetry and thought of Joseph Delorme) and the novel (Pleasure). Then he wrote other books of criticism and literary literary Portraits, Port-Royal history, Causeries of Monday, New Mondays, and so one. He designed literary criticism like a reconstitution of the specific genius to each writer and brought in this work exceptional qualities of taste, smoothness and exactitude. Librarian in Mazarine in 1840, elected with the French Academy the same year, professor of poetry to the college of France in 1855, then at the Teacher training school from 1857 to 1861, member of the Senate in 1865, he has a monument located in the garden of Luxembourg since 1898.

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