René Bazin

Background

René Bazin was born in 1853 in Angers, France.

Education

René Bazin studied law in Paris.

Career

On his return from Paris, René Bazin became professor of law in the Catholic university there.

He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel.

Other novels of great charm and delicacy followed: La Sarcelle bleue (1892); Madame Corentine (1893); Humble Amour (1894); De toute son dme (1897); La Terre qui meurt (1899); Les Oberli (1901), an Alsatian story which was dramatized and acted in the following year; L'Ame alsacienne (1903); Donatienne (1903); L'IsoUe (1905); Le BU qui leve (1907); Mimoires d'une vieille fille( 1908). He was admitted to the Académie française on 28 April 1904, to replace Ernest Legouvé.

Achievements

• René Bazin made his reputation by Une Tache d'encre (1888), which received a prize from the Academy. He was President of the Corporation des Publicistes Chretiens. René Bazin was a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Religion

During his entire life, René Bazin was active in Catholic organizations and welfare work.