Louis Gillet Explained

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.

Life

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]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Actes de naissance . Archives de l'état civil de Paris . 11/5286/1876 . 3 . French . 1876-12-14 . 2021-06-07.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=oZQuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66 The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, 1917, p. 66