Thursday, January 12, 2006

René Dumesnil

Grave of René Dumesnil, Saint-Vincent Cemetery, Paris

Grave of René Dumesnil (1879-1967)
Cimetière Saint-Vincent (Saint-Vincent Cemetery)
Rue Lucien-Gaulard
Quartier des Grandes-Carrières, 18th arrondissement
Paris, July 2005

“René Dumesnil (19 June 1879 – 24 December 1967) was a French physician, literary critic and musicologist. Dumesnil studied literature at the Sorbonne and became a literary critic. Then he was music critic for Le Mercure de France and Le Monde. He was elected a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1965. In addition to his publications in literature (numerous studies on Flaubert, Maupassant and realism, he has written a number of books on music. Dumesnil won four prizes awarded by the Académie française.” (René Dumesnil, Wikipedia)

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