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Ernest Dupuy

1849–1918

A French man of letters who moved easily between teaching, criticism, poetry, and literary history, he wrote with particular feeling about major 19th-century writers. His work also helped introduce readers to Russian literature and the Romantic generation in France.

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The great masters of Russian literature in the nineteenth century

The great masters of Russian literature in the nineteenth century

by Ernest Dupuy

Victor Hugo, son oeuvre poétique

Victor Hugo, son oeuvre poétique

by Ernest Dupuy

About the author

Born in Lectoure in 1849 and later active in Paris, Ernest Dupuy was a French professor, writer, literary critic, and poet. Reference sources consistently describe him as a figure of literary culture as much as creative writing, and his career brought together teaching, criticism, and scholarship.

His books show a strong interest in the writers of the 19th century. He wrote on Victor Hugo and Alfred de Vigny, published collections and studies on poets and critics, and is also associated with a work on the great Russian authors of the nineteenth century. That mix of French literary history and a wider European outlook gives his bibliography a broad, curious feel.

Dupuy died in Paris in 1918. Today he is remembered less as a single-genre author than as a versatile literary presence: a reader, teacher, and commentator whose work helps map the intellectual life of his period.