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See also:VILLEMAIN, See also:ABEL See also:FRANCOIS (179o-1867) , See also:French politician and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the qth of See also:June 1790. He was educated at the lycee See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis-le-See also:Grand, and became assistant See also:master at the lycee See also:Charlemagne, and subsequently at the ?tole Normale. In 1812 he gained a See also:prize from the See also:Academy with an eioge on See also:Montaigne. Under the restoration he was appointed, first, asistant See also:professor of See also:modern See also:history, and then professor of French eloquence at the See also:Sorbonne. Here he delivered a See also:series of See also:literary lectures which had an extra-See also:ordinary effect on his younger contemporaries. Villemain had the See also:great See also:advantage of coming just before the Romantic See also:movement, of having a wide and See also:catholic love of literature withoutbeing an extremist. All, or almost all, the See also:clever See also:young men of the brilliant See also:generation of 1830 passed under his See also:influence; and, while he pleased the Romanticists by his See also:frank appreciation of the beauties of See also:English, See also:German, See also:Italian and See also:Spanish See also:poetry, he had not the least inclination to decry the See also:classics—either the classics proper of See also:Greece and See also:Rome or the so-called classics of See also:France. In 1819 he published a See also:book on See also:Cromwell, and two years later he was elected to the Academy. Ville-See also:main was appointed by the restoration See also:government " chef de 1'imprimerie et de la librairie," a See also:post involving a See also:kind of irregular censorship of the See also:press, and afterwards to the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of master of See also:requests. Before the revolution of See also:July he had been deprived of his office for his liberal tendencies, and had been elected See also:deputy for See also:Evreux. Under Louis Philippe he received a See also:peerage in 1832. He was a member of the See also:council of public instruction, and was twice See also:minister of that See also:department, and he also became secretary of the Academy. During the whole of the July See also:monarchy he was thus one of the See also:chief dispensers of literary patronage in France, but in his later years his reputation declined. He died in Paris on the 8th of May 1867.
Villemain's chief See also:work is his Cosies de la litterature francaise (5 vols., 1828-29). Among his other See also:works are : Tableau de la litterature du moyen dge (2 vols., 1846) ; Tableau de la litterature au X VIII° siecle (4 vols., 1864) ; Souvenirs contemporains (2 vols., 1856) ; Histoire de See also:Gregoire VII. (2 vols., 1873; Eng. trans., 1874).
Among notices on Villemain may be cited that of Louis de Lomenie (1841), E. Mirecourt (1858), J. L. Dubut (1875). See also Sainte-Beuve, Portraits (1841, vol. iii.), and Causeries du lundi (vol. xi. " Notes et pensees ").
End of Article: VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS (179o-1867)
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