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Paul Bourget

Paul Charles Joseph Bourget was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

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culture · French novelist and literary critic · playwright · writer · essayist · novelist · literary critic · poet · journalist · also Paul Bourget, Bourget

Born 2 September 1852 · Died 25 December 1935 · Q198644

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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1935).
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At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.
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1935· 3 entries

Dec 25, 1935Documented record86% confidence

Died 1935-12-25.

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Jun 15, 1935Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1935).

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“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.”

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1931· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1931Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1931).

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1926· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1926Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: president (1926–1930).

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1923· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1923Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1923).

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1912· 1 entry

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And another set of travel sketches, Le Démon du midi, in 1914

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1895· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1895Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1895).

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1894· 3 entries

Jan 1, 1894Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: seat 33 of the Académie française (1894–1935).

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And in 1895 was promoted to be an officer of the Légion d'honneur, having received the decoration of the order ten years before

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And was promoted to be an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1895

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1893· 1 entry

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In an interview he gave in America, he spoke about his changed views: "For many years I, like most young men in modern cities, was content to drift along in agnosticism, but I was brought to my senses at last by the grow

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1891· 1 entry

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Appeared the novel Coeur de femme, and Nouveaux pastels, "types" of the characters of men, the sequel to a similar gallery of female types (Pastels, 1890)

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1889· 1 entry

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The preface to that story revealed his moral enthusiasm

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1888· 1 entry

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Contains impressions of Bourget's stay in England and Ireland—especially reminiscences of the months which he spent at Oxford and in 1891 Sensations d'Italie, notes of a tour in that country, revealed a fresh phase of hi

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1885· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1885Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1885).

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Jun 15, 1885Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Vitet Prize (1885).

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1884· 1 entry

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Bourget paid a long visit to Britain, where he wrote his first published story (L'Irréparable)

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1883· 1 entry

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Published Essais de Psychologie Contemporaine, studies of eminent writers first printed in the Nouvelle Revue, and now brought together

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1867· 1 entry

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Began a gradual return to it in 1889, fully converting only in 1901

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1852· 1 entry

Sep 2, 1852Documented record86% confidence

Born 1852-09-02.

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