13 Facts About Paul Bourget

Paul Bourget was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

Paul Bourget initially abandoned Catholicism but eventually returned to it in the late 19th century.

Paul Bourget was admitted to the Academie Francaise in 1894 and was promoted to be an officer of the Legion d'honneur in 1895.

Nonetheless, Paul 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 Paul Bourget's poems to music.

Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme departement of Picardy, France.

Paul Bourget afterwards studied at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes.

In 1884 Paul Bourget paid a long visit to Britain, where he wrote his first published story.

Paul Bourget, who had abandoned Catholicism in 1867, began a gradual return to it in 1889, fully converting only in 1901.

Paul Bourget was admitted to the Academie Francaise in 1894, and in 1895 was promoted to be an officer of the Legion d'honneur, having received the decoration of the order ten years before.

Paul Bourget wrote two other plays, Un cas de conscience and La Crise, in collaboration with others.

Paul Bourget was a contributor to Le Visage de l'Italie, a 1929 book about Italy prefaced by Benito Mussolini.

Paul Bourget died on Christmas Day 1935, aged 83, in Paris.

Paul Bourget painted the intricate emotions of women, whether wronged, erring or actually vicious; and he described the ideas, passions and failures of the young men of France.