Edmond François Valentin About
Edmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.
Caricature of About by André Gill, 1867.
About at the time of his first notoriety, by Félix-Henri Giacomotti, 1858 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
The grave of Edmond About in Pere La Chaise Cemetery in Paris
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 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 practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.
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Image: Signature of Hippolyte Taine