Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Nicolas Eugène Géruzez (January 6, 1799 - May 29, 1865), French critic, was born at Reims. He was assistant professor at the Sorbonne, and in 1852 he became secretary to the faculty of literature. He wrote a Histoire de l'éloquence politique et religieuse en France aux XIV', XV' et XVI' siècles (1837-1838); an admirable Histoire de la littérature française depuis les origines jusqu’a la Revolution (1852), which he supplemented in 1859 by a volume bringing down the history to the close of the revolutionary period; and some miscellaneous works. Géruzez died in Paris. A posthumous volume of Mélanges et pensées appeared in 1877. This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.