Louis Gillet | |
Birth Name: | Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet |
Birth Date: | 11 December 1876 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Resting Place: | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Language: | French |
Nationality: | French |
Alma Mater: | Collège Stanislas de Paris École normale supérieure |
Genre: | Non-fiction |
Subject: | Art |
Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian.
Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876.[1] 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 article to the Catholic Encyclopedia.[2]