André Chevrillon (3 May 1864 – 9 July 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of

Hippolyte Taine Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitione ...

, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study. Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (

Charente Charente (; Saintongese: ''Chérente''; ) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It is named after the river Charente, the most important and longest river in the department, and also the r ...

), and educated at the University College School (London), the

École alsacienne The École alsacienne is a co-educational private school located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The school was founded by a group of French Alsatians after the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. It then became a model for reforming th ...

(Paris), the

Lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Par ...

, and the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

. He was a professor of English at the

École Navale École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

of Brest in 1887–1888, and from 1889 to 1894 was ''Maître de conférences'' at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lille. He was with the British Army at the front during the War, and afterward (1921) was received in the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

. His writings fall into two distinct classes: impressions of travel, and critical essays on England and English literature. Besides many articles in the ''Revue de Paris'' and the '' Revue des deux mondes'' his works include: * ''Dans l'Inde'' (1891; English translation, ''Romantic India'') * ''Sydney Smith et la renaissance des idées libérales en Angleterre au 19e siècle'' (thesis, 1894) * ''Terres mortes'' (1897) * ''Études anglaises'' (1901) * ''Un Crépuscule d'Islam'' (1906) * ''La Pensée de Ruskin'' (1909) * ''Nouvelles études anglaises'' (1910) * ''L'Angleterre et la guerre'' (1917; English translation, ''Britain and the War'', with a preface by

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much ...

) * ''Près des combattants'' (1919) * ''Marrakech dans les palmes'' (1920) * ''Les Américains à Brest'' (1920; with a preface by

Owen Wister Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer. His novel ''The Virginian (novel), The Virginian'', published in 1902, helped create the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and built Wister's reputation as the " ...

) * ''Trois études de littérature anglaise'' (Kipling, Shakespeare, Galsworthy) (1921; English translation, 1923) * ''La Mer dans les bois'' (1928) * ''André Dauchez'' (1955)

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* * 1864 births 1957 deaths People from Charente People educated at University College School Academic staff of the University of Lille Nord de France Members of the Académie Française French people of World War I French male writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub