Paul Stapfer

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Paul Stapfer (1840–1917) was a French essayist, born in Paris, and educated at the Bonaparte Lyceum. After serving as tutor in the family of Guizot, he became professor in the faculty of Grenoble. In 1883 he accepted a similar professorship at Bordeaux. Stapfer's essays are remarkable for their clearness of style, perfection of finish, and accuracy of detail. He edited the Grands écrivains series. Among his works are:

  • Petite comédie de la critique littéraire de Molière selon les trois écoles philosophiques (1866)
  • Causeries guernesiaises (1881)
  • Shakespeare et l'antiquité (1883)
  • Goethe et ses deux chefs-d'œuvre classiques (1881)
  • Racine et Victor Hugo (1886)
  • Rabelais, sa personne, son génie, son œuvre (1889)
  • Montaigne (1894)
  • La grande prédication chrétienne en France: Bossuet, Adolphe Monod (1898)
  • Des réputations littéraires and Victor Hugo et la grande poésie satirique en France (1901)
  • Questions esthétiques et religieuses (1906)
  • Vers la vérité (1909)
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