Faguet, Emile (1841-1916)

French literary critic. He was a professor at the Sorbonne from 1890 and the founder and editor of the Revue latine. Among his most important works are La Tragédie française au XVIe siècle 1883, Etudes littéraires 1887-93, and Politiques et moralistes du XIXe siècle 1891-1900.

The articles he wrote over a period of 20 years as drama critic of the Journal des débats were collected in Propos de théâtre 1903-07, and other volumes.