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Pierre de Lacretelle
1886–1969
Best known for literary and historical studies, this French man of letters moved easily between criticism, biography, and cultural history. He also came from a notable literary family, as the brother of novelist Jacques de Lacretelle.
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Les Origines et la Jeunesse de Lamartine 1790-1812
by Pierre de Lacretelle
About the author
Pierre de Lacretelle was a French writer born in 1886 and died in 1969. Sources identify him as a man of letters whose work included literary and historical writing, and records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France list works such as Les Origines et la jeunesse de Lamartine, 1790-1812.
He is also remembered through the Académie française, which has a dedicated member page for him, showing his standing in French literary life. Reference sources and readers' catalogs consistently place him among 20th-century French authors rather than limiting him to a single genre.
Pierre de Lacretelle was the brother of Jacques de Lacretelle, another well-known French writer. That family connection helps place him in a wider literary tradition, but his own reputation rests on his essays and studies of French writers and intellectual history.