DOUMIC

doumic, rene (1860- ), french critic and man of letters, was born in paris, and after a distinguished career at the ecole normale began to teach rhetoric at the college stanislas. he was a contributor to the _moniteur_, the _journal des debats_ and the _revue bleue_, but was best known as the independent and uncompromising literary critic of the _revue des deux mondes_. his works include: _elements d'histoire litteraire_ (1888); _portraits d'ecrivains_ (1892); _de scribe a ibsen_ (1893); _ecrivains d'aujour-d'hui_ (1894); _etudes sur la litterature francaise_ (5 vols., 1896-1905); _les jeunes_ (1896); _essais sur le theatre contemporain_ (1897); _les hommes et les idees du xix^e siecle_ (1903); and an edition of the _lettres d'elvire a lamartine_ (1905).