Louis Gillet

Louis Gillet
Born
Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet

(1876-12-11)11 December 1876
Paris, France
Died1 July 1943(1943-07-01) (aged 66)
Paris, France
Resting place
Père Lachaise Cemetery
EducationCollège Stanislas de Paris
École normale supérieure
Writing career
LanguageFrench
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectArt

Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian.

Life

Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876. He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the École normale supérieure. In 1900, he became a lecturer on the French at the University of Greifswald; from 1907 to 1909 he was a professor at the Université Laval in Montreal. He became an art critic in Paris, before entering the armed forces. Gillet contributed a number of articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Actes de naissance". Archives de l'état civil de Paris (in French) (11/5286/1876): 3. 14 December 1876. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  2. ↑ The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, 1917, p. 66Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.