Charles-Marie de Féletz
Charles-Marie de Féletz (3 January 1767 – 11 February 1850) was a French churchman, literary critic, academician, journalist and curator of the Mazarin Library.
Biography
Charles-Marie de Féletz was born in Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche, Corrèze, the son of Étienne Feletz d'Orimond and Catherine de Fars. He studied in Brive and Périgueux, and then took theology courses at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris for three years.
His religious community having refused to take the oath to the civil constitution of the clergy in 1791, he withdrew to the provinces and was ordained a priest by a proscribed bishop. Arrested in 1793, he was condemned without trial to deportation and thrown into the dungeon at Rochefort. He then spent 11 months on one of the pontoons where 800 other convicts were crammed together, 600 of whom died from deprivation. After a second stay in prison, he took refuge with his family in Périgueux, where he slowly recovered from his ordeal. After the coup of 18 Brumaire, he started in 1801 a career as a literary critic at the Journal des débats, which he continued at the Mercure de France. He became curator of the Mazarine library in 1809 and member of the commission of classical books of the University in 1812.
Having attracted the benevolence of Louis XVIII, Féletz was appointed inspector of the Academy of Paris in 1820. He was elected member of the French Academy in 1827. Removed from the Mazarin by Sadi Carnot in 1849, he died blind one year later.
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- 1767 births
- 1850 deaths
- 19th-century French journalists
- 19th-century French male writers
- French librarians
- French male journalists
- French literary critics
- Members of the Académie Française
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
