René Dumesnil


René Dumesnil was a French physician, literary critic and musicologist.
Dumesnil studied literature at the Sorbonne and became a literary critic. Then he was music critic for Le Mercure de France and Le Monde.
He was elected a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1965. In addition to his publications in literature (numerous studies on Flaubert, Maupassant and realism, he has written a number of books on music. Dumesnil won .

Publications

His writings were published in Paris.

Critics and literary history