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 and Marie Théodorine Sandrie-des-Fosses whom he had married on 25 August 1828, Augustin was born in
Paris
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. Educated at the ''
École normale
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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'', he lectured for some years in the ''
Lycées
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* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between ...
'' of
Nice
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. 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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, the Prince Imperial was exiled to
Chislehurst
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, Kent, accompanied by Filon, who settled in England with his family. He also wrote on English subjects, chiefly under the pseudonym of Pierre Sandrié.
He also wrote the prefaces for certain works by his younger sister, historian and writer
Mary Summer.
His only child was the distinguished applied mathematician
Louis Napoleon George Filon, who worked with
Karl Pearson
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.
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