Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche

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Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche (February 16, 1808 – September 18, 1857), was a French critic.

Planche was born in Paris. Having been introduced by Alfred de Vigny to François Buloz, he began to write for the Revue des deux mondes, and continued to do so until 1840. He resumed his connection with the journal in 1846 and contributed to it until his death in Paris.

Planche was an honest critic and refused to accept a place from Napoleon III of France for fear of compromising his freedom. Having been a fervent admirer of George Sand and lavished praise on de Vigny, he was contemptuous of Victor Hugo, whose earlier dramas he characterized as odes, those following Le Roi s'amuse as antitheses, and the later ones as nothing but spectacle. His critical papers were collected under the titles: Portraits littéraires (1836-1849); Nouveaux portraits littéraires (1854); and art criticisms, Etudes sur l'école française (1855).

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