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François Élie Jules Lemaître (1853–1914)
Lemaître, François Élie Jules (lė-mātr’). A French literary critic and dramatist; born at Vennecy (Loiret), April 27, 1853; died in 1914. He is the author of five volumes of literary biographies ‘Contemporaries: Being Literary Studies and Portraits’ (1885–95); ‘Impressions of the Theatre’; ‘On the Margin of Old Books’ (1905–14). He was for many years dramatic critic of the Journal des Débats. His début as a dramatist was made at the Odéon with ‘La Revoltée’ (1889), followed by ‘Deputy Leveau’ (1890), an exceedingly clever political satire. Of his other dramatic compositions may be mentioned: ‘The Kings’ (1893), and ‘The Pardon’ (1895). He is the author of two volumes of poems, ‘Medallions’ (1880) and ‘Petites Orientales’ (1882); ‘Corneille and Aristotle’s Poetics’ (1888); ‘Myrrha: Stories’ (1894); ‘Lonely Stories’ (1900). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).