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Pierre Lasserre
1867–1930
A sharp, influential voice in early 20th-century French letters, this critic and essayist wrote widely on literature, music, and ideas. His work helped shape conservative literary debate in France during a turbulent period.
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La morale de Nietzsche
by Pierre Lasserre
About the author
Born in Orthez on May 31, 1867, Pierre Lasserre was a French literary critic, journalist, and essayist. He studied philosophy and went on to build a career as a public intellectual, later serving as a director at the École pratique des hautes études.
Lasserre became especially known for literary criticism and for essays on major French writers and cultural themes. Bibliographic records for his work show a wide range of interests, including French Romanticism, literary portraits, and French music, which gives a sense of how broadly he moved across the arts.
He died in Paris on November 7, 1930. Today he is remembered less as a novelist than as a forceful critic whose books captured the arguments, tastes, and cultural tensions of his time.