Pen name Bernard Seigny Name Rene Bazin Nationality French Role Novelist | Notable awards Prix Vitet Children Louis-Rene Bazin Spouse Aline Bricard | |
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Born Rene Francois Nicolas Marie Bazin26 December 1853Angers, France ( 1853-12-26 ) Notable works Une Tache d\'Encre (1888), Sicile (1892), La Terre qui Meurt (1899), Les Nouveaux Oberle (1919) Education Catholic University of the West Books Les oberle, Ma tante Giron, The Ink Stain, Autumn glory, The Nun, The Penitent | ||
Nominations Nobel Prize in Literature | ||
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Biography
Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. In 1876, Bazin married Aline Bricard. The couple had two sons and six daughters. He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, and wrote Stephanette (1884), but he made his reputation with Une Tache d'Encre (A Spot of Ink) (1888), which received a prize from the Academy. He was admitted to the Académie française on 28 April 1904, to replace Ernest Legouvé.
René Bazin was a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and was President of the Corporation des Publicistes Chretiens.
Works
Other novels:
A volume of Questions littéraires et sociales appeared in 1906. He also wrote books of travel, including a À l'aventure (1891), Sicile (1892), Terre d'Espagne (1896), and Croquis de France et d'Orient (1901). Nord-Sud Amérique, etc. (1913). Bazin is known to English and American readers for rendering the Italy of his time, The Italians of To-Day (1904).
After 1914 he published two volumes of war sketches, Pages religieuses (1915) and Aujourd'hui et demain (1916).
