Lemaître, Jules (1853-1914)

French critic and writer. His critical articles were collected as Impressions de théâtre 1888-1920 and Les Contemporains 1886-1918, and he published La Comédie après Molière et le théâtre de Daucourt 1882, and, between 1907 and 1912, books on Rousseau, Racine, Fénelon, and Chateaubriand. He also wrote plays and short stories.

In politics Lemaître was an extreme reactionary, a supporter of Charles Maurras and L'Action Française, and many of his speeches were published, including the collected volumes La Campagne nationaliste 1902 and Discours royalistes 1911.