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Hippolyte Taine

Also known as Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, H. A. Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, Ippolit Adolf Ten

French literary critic and historian (1828-1893)

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Hippolyte Taine was a French writer and scholar who lived from 1828 to 1893. He was recognized in the Academie Francaise collection. Taine also used the pseudonym Frédéric-Thomas Graindorge.

His literary output includes works such as French Revolution Volume I, Histoires de la Litterature Anglaise Tome II de V, Ancient Regime, Origins of Contemporary France, Volume II, and Essai Sur Tite Live. Various sources list differing counts for his works, with figures ranging from 5 to 441.

Taine is associated with several recorded quotes, including statements regarding the study of philosophers and cats, as well as the influence of material and intellectual climate on art.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1828
Died: 1893
Works: 441

Top works

French Revolution Volume I
Histoires de la Litterature Anglaise Tome II de V
Ancient Regime
Origins of Contemporary France, Volume II
Essai Sur Tite Live

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1
Total plays: 13

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“[Concerning the love La Fontaine felt for animals] He follows their emotions, he represents their reasonings, he becomes tender, he becomes gay, he participates in their feelings. The fact is, he lived in them. […] The animals contain all the materials of man-sensations, judgments, images.”
“J'ai beaucoup étudié les philosophes et les chats. La sagesse des chats est infiniment supérieure.”
“The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.”
“Napoleon, far more Italian than French, Italian by race, by instinct, imagination, and souvenir, considers in his plan the future of Italy, and, on casting up the final accounts of his reign, we find that the net profit is for Italy and the net loss is for France.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Hippolyte Taine, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.

Taine had a profound effect on French literature; Maurice Baring wrote in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's." Out of the trauma of 1871, Taine has been said by one scholar to have "forged the architectural structure of modern French right-wing historiography."

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