Career

After serving as tutor in the family of François Guizot, he became a professor at Grenoble. In 1883, he accepted a similar professorship at Bordeaux. Stapfer"s essays are remarkable for their clarity of style, perfection of finish and accuracy of detail.

He edited the Grands écrivains series.

Among his works are:

Petite comédie de la critique littéraire de Molière selon les trois écoles philosophiques (1866)

Causeries guernesiaises (1881)

Shakespeare et l"antiquité (1883), which revealed to anti-Stratfordians the depth of its subject"s knowledge of Latin and his formidable acquaintance with Greek. Goethe et ses deux chefs-d"œuvre classiques (1881)

Racine et Victor Hugo (1886)

Rabelais, sa personne, son génie, son œuvre (1889)

Montaigne (1894)

Louisiana grande prédication chrétienne en France: Bossuet, Adolphe Monod (1898)

Des réputations littéraires and Victor Hugo et la grande poésie satirique en France (1901)

Questions esthétiques et religieuses (1906)

Vers la vérité (1909).