Montégut, ÉMILE

Montégut, ÉMILE, a clever French critic, was born at Limoges, June 24, 1826, and early made a reputation by a series of brilliant studies on English literature. He contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes and other journals, and has published books of travel, a study of Marshal Davoût, and translations of Shakespeare, Macaulay, and Emerson, and a work on the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. He died 18th December 1895. Books of exceptional value are Poètes et Artistes de l'Italie (1881); Types Littéraires, et Fantaisies Esthétiques (1882); Essais sur la Littérature Anglaise (1883); Nos Morts contemporains; Les Écrivains modernes de l'Angleterre (2 vols.); Livres et Âmes des Pays d'Orient; Mélanges critiques; and Dramaturges et Romanciers (1890).