Gustave Vapereau

Louis Gustave Vapereau , born with Orleans the April 4th 1819 and died in Morsang-on-Barley the April 17th 1906, is a French writer and encyclopedist, author of the universal Dictionnaire of the contemporaries and universal Dictionnaire of the literatures .

Normalien and aggregate of philosophy, it carries out a university career until in 1852, then becomes professor in free teaching. He is prefect of the Cantal in 1870 and of the Tarn-et-Garonne of 1871 with 1873, then general inspector of the state education of 1877 with 1888.

He collaborated in many reviews, in particular with the Illustration in collaboration with his son-in-law Maurice Tourneux, under the pseudonym of G. - M. Valtour. He also wrote under the pseudonym of Adrien tel.

Principal publications

Of the agricultural and penitentiary Colony of Mettray (1848)
Of the penitentiary Reform (1849)
universal Dictionary of the contemporaries, containing all the notable people of France and the foreign countries… written work and continuously held up to date, with the assistance of writers and scientists of all the countries (3 volumes, 1858-1895) Text in line 1 2 Supplement
the literary and dramatic Year or annual Review of the principal productions of the French literature and the translations of the most important works of the foreign literatures, classified and studied by kinds (1859-1869) Text on line 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
general Appreciation of the Miserable of Mr. Victor Hugo (1862)
universal Dictionary of the literatures Container: I, of the notes on the writers of all times and all the countries and on the characters who exerted a literary influence, the analysis and the appreciation of principal individual works, collective… II, the theory and the history of the various kinds of poetry and prose… III, the general and particular bibliography, works to be consulted on the questions of history, theory and scholarship (1876) Text in line
Elements of history of the French literature, containing a general draft of the history of the French literature (1886-1896)
Draft of history of the French literature (1882-1914) Text in line
the Man and life. Notes and impressions (1896). Articles written for the Illustration between 1880 and 1896 in collaboration with Maurice Tourneux.

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