Ernest Seillière
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Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 - 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic.
, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the
École polytechnique. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1914.
Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud
, René Grousset
, Octave Aubry
and Robert d'Harcourt
) one of the five members of the Académie française
elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by Édouard Le Roy
, succeeding Henri Lavedan
.
He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, and was the grandfather of Ernest-Antoine Seillière
.
Life
He was born in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the
École polytechnique. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1914.
Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud
Jean Tharaud
Jean Tharaud was a French writer.Tharaud was born in Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne.He was the eighteenth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1946...
, René Grousset
René Grousset
René Grousset was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française...
, Octave Aubry
Octave Aubry
-Life:Aubry, Ernest Seillière, Jean Tharaud, René Grousset and Robert d'Harcourt were the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe...
and Robert d'Harcourt
Robert d'Harcourt
Robert d'Harcourt was a French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist.-Early life:...
) one of the five members of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by Édouard Le Roy
Edouard Le Roy
Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy was a French philosopher and mathematician.Le Roy was received at the École Normale Supérieure in 1892, and at the agrégation in mathematics in 1895...
, succeeding Henri Lavedan
Henri Lavedan
Henri Léon Emile Lavedan , French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist....
.
He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, and was the grandfather of Ernest-Antoine Seillière
Ernest-Antoine Seillière
Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde, born 20 December 1937 in Neuilly-sur-Seine is an entrepreneur and the heir to the Wendel empire ....
.
Works
- Le Comte de Gobineau et l'aryanisme historique
- La Philosophie de l'impérialisme
- Étude sur NietzscheFriedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
- Le Mal romantique - Essai sur l'impérialisme irrationnel (1908)
- Un artisan d'énergie française, Pierre de Coubertin (1917)
- Émile ZolaÉmile ZolaÉmile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...
(1923) - Psychoanalyse freudienne ou psychologie impérialiste (1928)
- RomantismeRomanticismRomanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
et démocratie romantique (1930) - Émile FaguetÉmile FaguetAuguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris. After teaching for some time in La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. He...
historien des idées (1938) - Le Naturisme de Montaigne et autres essais (1938)
- Un précurseur du national-socialisme. L'actualité de CarlyleThomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was...
.(1939)
External links
- Académie française
- Ernest Seillière in the Dictionnaire de la réception de Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...