Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian.

Life

Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876. He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the

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. In 1900, he became a lecturer on the French at the

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; from 1907 to 1909 he was a professor at the

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in Montreal. He became an art critic in Paris, before entering the armed forces. Gillet contributed a number of article to the ''

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''.''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', 1917, p. 66
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Works

*''Raphaël'', 1907 *''Watteau'', 1921 *''Trois variations sur Claude Monet'', 1927 *''Esquisses anglaises'', 1930 *''Essais sur l'art français'', 1937, dedicated to

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References

1876 births 1943 deaths Writers from Paris French literary historians French art historians Members of the Académie Française Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery French male non-fiction writers Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia {{France-historian-stub