Taillandier

Taillandier, SAINT-RENÉ (properly René Gaspard Ernest), a French writer, born at Paris, 16th December 1817, studied at Paris and Heidelberg, and had already filled chairs at Strasburg and Montpellier, when he was called in 1863 to succeed Saint-Marc Girardin at the Sorbonne. He was admitted to the Academy in 1873, and died February 24, 1879. His chief work was to open up the art and literature of Germany to his countrymen in such books as Histoire de la jeune Allemagne (1849), Études sur la Révolution en Allemagne (1853), Allemagne et Russie (1856), and a translation of the Goethe-Schiller letters (1863). He contributed long to the Revue des Deux Mondes, and other of his works are Scot Érigène et la Philosophie scholastique (1843), Histoire et Philosophie religieuse (1860), Écrivains et Poètes Modernes (1861), Drames et Romans de la Vie Littéraire (1870), and Études Littéraires (1881), besides works on the Countess of Albany (1862), Marshal Saxe (1865), Philippe de Ségur (1875), and King Leopold and Queen Victoria (1878).