How to Pronounce Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut
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Jun 14, 1825 Limoges, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France Died on 10 Dec 1895 (aged 70)
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About Jean Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut (14 June 1825 – 10 December 1895), was a French critic. He was born at Limoges.
- He began to write for the Revue des deux mondes in 1847, contributing between 1851 and 1857 a series of articles on the English and American novel, and in 1857 he became chief literary critic of the review.
- Émile Montégut translated Essais de philosophie américaine (1850) from Ralph Waldo Emerson; Revolution de 1688 (2 vols.
- 1853) from Thomas Macaulay's History; and also produced the Œuvres completes (10 vols.
- 1868-1873) of William Shakespeare. Among his numerous critical works are Types littéraires et fantaisies esthétiques (1882), Ecrivains modernes d'Angleterre (3rd series, 1885-1892) and Heures de lecture d'un critique (1891), studies of John Aubrey, Alexander Pope, Wilkie Collins and Sir John Mandeville. Montégut died at Paris.
