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BAZIN , REN$ (1853– ), See also:

French novelist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Angers on the 26th of See also:December 1853. He studied See also:law in See also:Paris, and on his return to Angers became See also:professor of law in the See also:Catholic university there. He contributed to Parisian See also:journals a See also:series of sketches of provincial See also:life and descriptions of travel, but he made his reputation by Une Tache d'encre (1888), which received a See also:prize from the See also:Academy. Other novels of See also:great See also:charm and delicacy followed: La Sarcelle bleue (1892); Madame Corentine (1893); Humble Amour (1894); De toute son See also:time (1897); La Terre qui meurt (1899); See also:Les Oberle (1901), an Alsatian See also:story which was dramatized and acted in the following See also:year; L'Ame alsacienne (1903); Donatienne (1903); L'Isolee (1905); Le Ble qui leve (1907) Memoires d'une vieille fille (1908). La Terre qui meurt, a picture of the decay of See also:peasant farming and a story of La See also:Vendee, is an indirect plea for the development of provincial See also:France. A See also:volume of Questions litteraires et sociales appeared in 1906. Rene Bazin was admitted to the Academy on the 28th of See also:April 1904.

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