Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index René Bazin (December 26, 1853 - July 20, 1932) was a French novelist. Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became professor of law in the Catholic university there. He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, but he made his reputation with Une tache d'encre (A spot of ink) (1888), which received a prize from the Academy. Other novels of great charm and delicacy followed: La Sarcelle bleue (1892) Madame Corentine (1893) Humble Amour (1894) De toute son âme (1897) La Terre qui meurt (1899) Les Oberlé (1901), an Alsatian story which was dramatized and acted in the following year L'Ame alsacienne (1903) Donatienne (1903) L'Isolée (1905) Le blé qui lève (1907) Mémoires d'une vieille fille (1908). La Terre qui meurt, a picture of the decay of peasant farming and a story of La Vendée, was an indirect plea for the development of provincial France. A volume of Questions littéraires et sociales appeared in 1906. René Bazin was admitted to the Académie française on April 28, 1904. Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.