Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)



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Literary critic and French author. He began as a medical student, but abandoned this path in 1827 to devote himself to a literary career. His best known work is "Port-Royal", a history of the Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, in which Sainte-Beuve recast the genre of religious history. He taught courses in French language and literature at the Ecole normale supérieure and at the University of Liège.