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Augustin Filon
1841–1916
A French man of letters with a strong interest in England, he moved easily between criticism, fiction, and political writing. He is also remembered for serving as tutor to the Prince Imperial, a role that placed him close to the final years of the Second Empire.
2 Audiobooks
The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama
by Augustin Filon
Garrick's Pupil
by Augustin Filon
About the author
Born in Paris in 1841, Augustin Filon was the son of historian Charles Auguste Désiré Filon and built his own career as a professor of rhetoric and writer. After placing highly in literature, he became tutor to the Prince Imperial in 1867 and remained closely connected to the imperial circle until 1875.
Filon went on to publish fiction as well as articles, reviews, and books on English politics, art, and literature. His contemporaries saw him as a French interpreter of English public life, and his later works included writing on figures such as Prosper Mérimée and Shakespeare, along with memoir-like books drawn from personal experience.
He died at Croydon in 1916. Today he is chiefly of interest as a cultured bridge between French and English literary life, and as a witness to a dramatic chapter of nineteenth-century French history.