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HOUSSAYE, ARSINE (1815-1896) , French novelist, poet and man of letters, was born at Bruyeres (Aisne), near Lao; on the 28th of March 1815. His real surname was Housset. In 1832 he found his way to Paris, and in 1836 he published two novels, La Couronne de bluets and La Pecheresse. He had many friends in Paris, among them Jules Janin and Theophile' Gautier, and he wrote in collaboration with Jules Sandeau. He produced art 'criticism in L'Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise (1846); semi-historical sketches in Mlle de la Valliere et Mme de Montespan (186o) and Galerie de portraits du X VIP siecle (1844); literary criticism in Le Rai Voltaire (1858) and his famous satirical Histoire du quarante et unieme fauteuil de l'academie francaise (1855); drama in his Comediennes (1857); poetry in his Symphonie des vingt ans (1867), Cent et un sonnets (1873), &c.; and novels, Les Filles d'Eve (1852) and many others. In 1849, through the influence of Rachel, he was entrusted with the administration of the Theatre Francais, a position he filled with unfailing tact and success until 1859, when he was made inspector-general of works of art. He died on the 26th of February 1896. souvenir; d'un demi-siecle appeared in 1885- His Confessions, 1891. See also J. Lemaitre, Arsene Houssaye
His son, HENRY
HOUSSAYE
Napoleon
forty
abdication and the White Terror (1905). He was elected a member of the French Academy
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