Pierre Marie Augustin Filon (1841–1916) was a French professor of rhetoric and the author of a number of works of fiction, as well many articles, reviews and books on contemporary English politics, art and literature.
The son of the historian
Charles Auguste Désiré Filon
Charles Auguste Désiré Filon (1800–1875) was a French historian. He became professor of history at Douai, at École normale supérieure (Paris), École normale supérieure, and eventually ''inspecteur d'académie'' in Paris. His son, Pierre ...
, he was born in
Paris
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. Educated at the ''
École normale
École 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
* École, Savoi ...
'', he lectured for some years in the ''
Lycées
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
'' of
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...
and
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis
, commune status = Prefecture and commune
, image = Panorama grenoble.png
, image size =
, caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...
. In October 1867,
Duruy, then the French minister of education, appointed him tutor to the
Prince Imperial. During the Empress's Regency in 1870, M. Filon acted as her private secretary. Upon the fall of the
Second French Empire
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Historians in the 1930s ...
, the Prince Imperial was exiled to
Chislehurst
Chislehurst () is a suburban district of south-east London, England, in the London Borough of Bromley. It lies east of Bromley, south-west of Sidcup and north-west of Orpington, south-east of Charing Cross. Before the creation of Greate ...
, Kent, accompanied by Filon, who settled in England with his family. He also wrote on English subjects, chiefly under the pseudonym of Pierre Sandrié.
His only child was the distinguished applied mathematician
Louis Napoleon George Filon
Louis Napoleon George Filon, FRS (22 November 1875 – 29 December 1937) was an English applied mathematician, famous for his research on classical mechanics and particularly the theory of elasticity and the mechanics of continuous media. He als ...
, who worked with
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English mathematician and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university st ...
.
Works
*' (1862)
*''Les Mariages de Londres'' (1875)
*''Histoire de la littérature anglaise'' (1883)
*''Nos grands-pères'' (1887)
*''Garrick's Pupil'' (1893)
*''Prosper Mérimée'' (1894)
*''Le Théâtre anglais'' (1896)
*''Sous la tyrannie'' (1900)
*''La Caricature en Angleterre'' (1902)
*''Le Prince Impérial: Souvenirs et Documents'' (1912)
*''Souvenirs sur l'Impératrice Eugénie'' (1920)
References
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1841 births
1916 deaths
French non-fiction writers
French male non-fiction writers