About Ernest Seillière
Lived 1866 – 1955 (aged 88–89). Ernest Seillière was a French journalist, literary critic, sociologist, writer and philosopher.
The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 – 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic.
Biography Seillière was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the École polytechnique. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1914.
Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud, René Grousset, Octave Aubry and Robert d'Harcourt) one of the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by Édouard Le Roy, succeeding Henri Lavedan.
He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, and was the grandfather of Ernest-Antoine Seillière.
Works Étude sur Ferdinand Lassalle, fondateur du Parti Socialiste Allemand (1897) Littérature et Morale dans le Parti Socialiste Allemand (1898) La Philosophie de l'impérialisme, 4 volumes: I. Le Comte de Gobineau et l'Aryanisme historique (1903), II. Apollon ou Dionysos? Étude sur Nietzsche (1905), III. L'Impérialisme démocratique (1907), IV. Le Mal romantique - Essai sur l'impérialisme irrationnel (1908) Une Tragédie d'Amour au Temps du Romantisme (1909) Les Mystiques du Néoromantisme - Karl Marx, Tolstoï, les Pangermanistes (1910) Barbey d'Aurevilly (1910) Introduction à la Philosophie de l'Impérialisme (1911) Schopenhauer (1912) Mysticisme et Domination (1913) Le Romantisme des Réalistes - Gustave Flaubert (1914) L'Avenir de la Philosophie Bergsonienne (1917) Un artisan d'énergie française, Pierre de Coubertin (1917) Émile Zola (1923) Psychoanalyse freudienne ou psychologie impérialiste (1928) Romantisme et démocratie romantique (1930) Émile Faguet historien des idées (1938) Le Naturisme de Montaigne et autres essais (1938) Un précurseur du national-socialisme. L'actualité de Carlyle (1939)
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French writer (1866-1955)
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Ernest Seillière was born in 1866 in Paris.
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Ernest Seillière died on 15 March 1955 in Paris.
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Ernest Seillière was a journalist, literary critic, sociologist, writer and philosopher.
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