Background
He was born and educated in Aix-en-Provence.
literary critic literary historian writer
He was born and educated in Aix-en-Provence.
He served his novitiate in Sidmouth, Devon, and received orders in 1892. He wrote for the Annales de philosophie chrétienne, Correspondant, Revue des deux mondes and the Revue de Paris. Bremond"s magnum opus was his Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France (cited below).
He had a permanent interest in English topics, est g. public schools (Thring of Uppingham), the evolution of Anglican clergy (Walter Lake, JR Green) and wrote a study of the psychology of John Henry Newman (1906) (well before Geoffrey Faber"s attempt).
He was also awarded the Légion d"honneur. He died in Arthez-d"Asson.
Académie française]
He became a member of the Académie française succeeding Louis Duchesne, being elected in 1923 to the seat number 36.