Word: lefrance
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Dates: during 1909-1909
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Professor Abel Lefranc, the eminent authority on the literature of the French Renaissance, delivered the first of this year's Hyde lectures on "Moliere" yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 introduced the speaker...
Professor Lefranc spoke of the greatness of Moliere, whose name stands in the front rank of the world's great men of literature. Today he is more popular than ever before, both in France and elsewhere. His optimism is the trait that bears the closest resemblance to the American national character...
...growth of searching literary criticism during the last 25 years was treated at length by Professor Lefranc. Such investigation, however, should never dull aesthetic appreciation. Reconstruction of the social, political and economic structure of past literary periods by careful study of the works and of their sources is one of its chief tendencies. Other subjects of study are the great literary currents and the influence of women on Renaissance literature. Moliere was a conscious borrower. One of the most famous scenes in "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" was drawn from an obscure writer, de Bouscaille...
...Lefranc, who will deliver the lectures this year, is an eminent authority on the literature of the French Renaissance. He is also the author of a large number of books on French history and literature. He began his career as a student of French municipal history. In 1888 he became interested in the research study of the French Renaissance. One of his greatest achievements, in this connection, was the discovery in "la Bibliotheque Nationale" of a large number of poems by Marguerite de Navarre, the existence of which had up to that time been unknown. These poems wee published...
...CERCLE FRANCAID LECTURES. "Moliere." I. Professor Lefranc. New Lecture Hall. 4 P. M. Admission by ticket until five minutes before the beginning of the lecture; after that time open to the public...