Louis Gillet

Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian.

Life Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876. He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the École normale supérieure. In 1900, he became a lecturer on the French at the University of Greifswald; from 1907 to 1909 he was a professor at the Université Laval in Montreal. He became an art critic in Paris, before entering the armed forces. Gillet contributed a number of articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Works Raphaël, 1907 Watteau, 1921 Trois variations sur Claude Monet, 1927 Esquisses anglaises, 1930 Shakespeare, 1931 Essais sur l'art français, 1937, dedicated to Bernard Berenson.