Editing Jules Lemaître (section)

==Biography==
Lemaître was born in [[Vennecy]], [[Loiret]]. He became a professor at the [[University of Grenoble]] in 1883, but was already well known for his [[literary criticism]], and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. Lemaître succeeded [[Jean-Jacques Weiss]] as drama critic of the ''[[Journal des Débats]]'', and subsequently filled the same office on the ''[[Revue des Deux Mondes]]''. His literary studies were collected under the title of ''Les Contemporains'' (7 series, 1886–99), and his dramatic feuilletons as ''Impressions de Théàtre'' (10 series, 1888–98).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Lemaître's sketches of modern authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety and originality of expression. He was admitted to the [[French Academy]] on 16 January 1896. Lemaître's political views were defined in ''La Campagne Nationaliste'' (1902), lectures delivered in the provinces by him and by [[Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac|Godefroy Cavaignac]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Lemaître conducted a nationalist campaign in the ''[[Écho de Paris]]'', and was for some time president of the [[Ligue de la Patrie Française]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
The Ligue originated in 1898 with three young academics, [[Louis Dausset]], [[Gabriel Syveton]] and [[Henri Vaugeois]], who wanted to show that Dreyfusism was not accepted by all at the University.{{sfn|Pierrard|1998|p=180}}
They launched a petition that attacked [[Émile Zola]] and what many saw as an internationalist, pacifist left-wing conspiracy.{{sfn|Conner|2014|p=160}}
[[Charles Maurras]] gained the interest of the writer [[Maurice Barrès]], and the movement gained the support of three eminent personalities: the geographer [[Marcel Dubois]], the poet [[François Coppée]] and the critic and Jules Lemaître.{{sfn|Pierrard|1998|p=180}}

Lemaître resigned from the Ligue de la Patrie Française 1904, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
He died in [[Tavers]], aged 61.