Paul Stapfer

Paul Stapfer (1840–1917) was a French essayist, born in Paris, and educated at the Bonaparte Lyceum. After serving as tutor in the family of François Guizot, he became a professor at Grenoble. In 1883, he accepted a similar professorship at Bordeaux. Stapfer's essays are remarkable for their clarity of style, perfection of finish and accuracy of detail. He edited the "Grands écrivains" series. Among his works are:
* "Petite comédie de la critique littéraire de Molire selon les trois écoles philosophiques" (1866)
* "Causeries guernesiaises" (1881)
* "Shakespeare et l'antiquité" (1883), which revealed to anti-Stratfordians the depth of its subject's knowledge of Latin and his formidable acquaintance with Greek.
* "Goethe et ses deux chefs-d'œuvre classiques" (1881)
* "Racine et Victor Hugo" (1886)
* "Rabelais, sa personne, son génie, son œuvre" (1889)
* "Montaigne" (1894)
* "La grande prédication chrétienne en France: Bossuet, Adolphe Monod" (1898)
* "Des réputations littéraires" and "Victor Hugo et la grande poésie satirique en France" (1901)
* "Questions esthétiques et religieuses" (1906)
* "Vers la vérité" (1909)