Encyclopedia > Pierre Marie Augustin Filon

  Article Content

Pierre Marie Augustin Filon

Pierre Marie Augustin Filon (1841 - ?), French man of letters, son of the historian Charles Auguste Désiré Filon, was born in Paris.

Educated at the École normale he was appointed tutor to the prince imperial and accompanied him to England, where he remained for some years. He is the author of

  • Guy Palm, sa vie, sa correspondance (1862)
  • Nos grands-pères (1887)
  • Prosper Mérimée (1894)
  • Sous la tyrannie (1900)

On English subjects he has written chiefly under the pseudonym of Pierre Sandrié,

  • Les Mariages de Londres (1875)
  • Histoire de la liltérature anglaise (1883)
  • Le Théâtre anglais (1896)
  • La Caricature en Angleterre (1902)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
French resistance

... Comite d’Action Socieliste[?] (CAS) - Founded in January 1941 by Daniel Mayer[?], member of the French Socialist Party[?]. Later it was lead by a bookshop keeper Pierre ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 64.4 ms