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comte d' Haussonville
1843–1924
A French aristocrat of the Third Republic, he moved easily between politics and letters, writing polished studies of major historical and literary figures. Elected to the Académie française, he was also closely tied to the world of the Revue des Deux Mondes.
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Mme de La Fayette (6e édition)
by comte d' Haussonville
About the author
Born in 1843 at Gurcy-le-Châtel, Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville, was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, and literary historian. He came from a prominent family and built a career that joined public life with serious literary work.
He represented Seine-et-Marne in the National Assembly and was active in conservative and royalist circles. Alongside politics, he wrote biographies, historical studies, and essays, and became known as an important contributor to the Revue des Deux Mondes.
In 1888 he was elected to the Académie française, a sign of the esteem he had won in French literary life. He died in Paris in 1924, remembered as a writer-statesman whose books reflected both historical curiosity and the cultured tone of late 19th-century France.