Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804 – 1869). French literary critic.
Sainte-Beuve published collections of poems and the partly autobiographical novel Volupté in 1834. After several books of poetry and a couple of failed novels, Sainte-Beuve began to do literary research, of which the most important publication resulting is Port-Royal.
Port-Royal, probably Sainte-Beuve's masterpiece, is an exhaustive history of the Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, near Paris. It not only influenced the historiography of religious belief, but also the philosophy of history and the history of esthetics.
He was made Senator in 1865, in which capacity he distinguished himself by his pleas for freedom of speech and of the press. According to Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, "Sainte-Beuve was a clever man with the temper of a turkey!"
- "... inheriting from his half-English mother his red hair and robust frame..." http://waltercosand.com/.../essaysbysaintebe00sain.pdf
- "... his hair pale red, very abundant, and at once stiff and fine." https://archive.org/.../charlesaugustins00harpuoft_djvu.txt
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