{"id":"paul-bourget","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/paul-bourget","language":"en","name":"Paul Bourget","name_en":"Paul Bourget","name_ne":null,"description":"French writer, playwright and critic (1852–1935)","headline":"French writer, playwright and critic (1852–1935)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (French: [buʁʒɛ]; 2 September 1852 – 25 December 1935) was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.","summary_more":["Paul Bourget was born in Amiens, France. He initially abandoned Catholicism but eventually returned to it in the late 19th century. Bourget is known for his psychological and moralistic novels that often portrayed the complex emotions of women and the ideas, passions, and failures of young men in France. Some of his notable works include Le Disciple (1889), a bestseller that explored the consequences of materialism and positivism, and other novels such as Cruelle énigme (1885), André Cornelis (1886), and Mensonges (1887). He was admitted to the Académie Française in 1894 and was promoted to be an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1895.","Bourget's early career was marked by volumes of verse, but he later found success in literary journalism, and his critical works such as Sensations d'Italie (1891) are highly regarded. Though his novels were widely popular in his time, they have since been largely forgotten by the general reading public. Nonetheless, Bourget remains an important figure in French literature for his psychological and moralistic approach to fiction, and his influence can be seen in the works of several composers, including Claude Debussy, who set some of Bourget's poems to music."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"2 September 1852","date":"1852-09-02"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Amiens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41604"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"25 December 1935","date":"1935-12-25"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Paris","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"France","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"playwright","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214917"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"},{"text":"essayist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11774202"},{"text":"novelist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6625963"},{"text":"literary critic","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4263842"},{"text":"poet","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49757"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Action Française","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49629"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Lycée Louis-le-Grand","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1059546"},{"text":"Collège Sainte-Barbe","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1110002"},{"text":"École pratique des hautes études","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273631"},{"text":"University of Paris","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209842"},{"text":"Lycée Blaise-Pascal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268594"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"president (1926–1930)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30461","start":"1926","end":"1930"},{"text":"Member of the Académie française (31 May 1894 – 25 December 1935)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18705668","start":"1894-05-31","end":"1935-12-25"},{"text":"chairperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140686"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10855226","date":"1935-07-25"},{"text":"Concours général","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908793"},{"text":"Taylorian Lecture","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7690225"},{"text":"Vitet Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18018029","date":"1885"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bourget","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198644"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Paul Bourget born?","a":"Paul Bourget was born on 2 September 1852 in Amiens."},{"q":"What positions has Paul Bourget held?","a":"Positions held by Paul Bourget include: president (1926–1930); Member of the Académie française (1894–1935); chairperson."},{"q":"Where did Paul Bourget study?","a":"Paul Bourget was educated at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Collège Sainte-Barbe, École pratique des hautes études, University of Paris."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"},{"name":"François Jacob","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/francois-jacob"},{"name":"Alain Aspect","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alain-aspect"},{"name":"Jules A. 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