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Louis Maigron

1866–1954

A French literary historian who turned Romanticism into a lively subject of investigation, he wrote influential studies on Walter Scott’s impact in France, on Fontenelle, and on the social world of the Romantic era.

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Le Roman Historique a l'Epoque Romantique - Essai sur l'Influence de Walter Scott

Le Roman Historique a l'Epoque Romantique - Essai sur l'Influence de Walter Scott

by Louis Maigron

About the author

Born in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès in 1866 and dying in Paris in 1954, Louis Maigron built his career in French letters step by step: he studied at the Faculty of Letters in Montpellier, earned the agrégation in 1890, completed a doctorate in 1898, and taught rhetoric before moving into university life.

He served at the University of Clermont-Ferrand first as a lecturer and then, from 1909 to 1926, as professor of French literature. He later became rector of the Académie de Caen, and he was also a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.

Maigron is best remembered for scholarly books that made literary history feel concrete and readable, including Le roman historique à l’époque romantique, Fontenelle, l’homme, l’œuvre, l’influence, Le romantisme et les mœurs, and Le Romantisme et la mode. Several of these works were recognized by the Académie française, showing the respect his research earned in his own time.