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MANUEL, EUGENE (1823–1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 609 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANUEL, See also:EUGENE (1823–1901) , See also:French poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:Paris, the son of a Jewish See also:doctor, on the 13th of See also:July 1823. He was educated at the 1 See also:cole Normale, and taught See also:rhetoric for some years in provincial See also:schools and then in Paris. In 187o he entered the See also:department of public instruction, and in 1878 became inspector-See also:general. His See also:works include: Pages intimes (1866), which received a See also:prize from the See also:Academy; Fames populaires (1874); See also:Pendant la guerre (1871), patriotic poems, which were forbidden in See also:Alsace-See also:Lorraine by the See also:German authorities; En voyage (1881), poems; La See also:France (4 vols., 1854-1858); a school-See also:book written in collaboration with his See also:brother-in-See also:law, See also:Levi Alavares; See also:Les Ouvriers (187o), a See also:drama dealing with social questions, which was crowned by the Academy; L' Absent (1873), a See also:comedy;Poesies du foyer et de l'ecole (1889), and See also:editions of the works of J. B. See also:Rousseau (1852) and See also:Andre See also:Chenier (1884). He died in Paris in 1901. His Poesies completes (2 vols., 1899) contained some fresh poems; to his Melanges en See also:prose (Paris, 1905) is prefixed an See also:introductory See also:note by A. Cahen.

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