Educated at the college of Clermont-Ferrand, the Lycee Louis-le-Grand and the Ecole de Hautes Etudes, Bourget was interested in journalism while still at school. His first publication, Au Bord de la Mer, a volume of verse, appeared in 1873. In 1883, his Essais de psychologie contemporaine (studies of eminent writers) was published in Nouvelle Revue. Bourget's early novels, Cruelle Enigma (1885), Andre Cornelis (1886) and Mesonges (1887), were quite successful and cemented his reputation as a novelist. Bourget went on to write numerous novels, short stories, essays and poetry and was admitted to the Academie Francais in 1894. In 1895, he was promoted to an officer of the Legion of Honor. Among his other works were Le Disciple (1889), Coeur de Femme (1891), Cosmopolis (1892), La Duchesse Bleue (1897), La Fantasme (1901), L'Etape (1902), Un Divorce (1904), Barricade (1910), Demon de Midi (1914), Danseur Mondain (1926) and Honneur de Nom (1933). |
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