René Dumesnil

René Dumesnil (19 June 1879 – 24 December 1967) was a French physician, literary critic and musicologist.

Dumesnil studied literature at the Sorbonne and became a literary critic. Then he was music critic for ''Le Mercure de France'' and ''Le Monde''.

He was elected a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1965. In addition to his publications in literature (numerous studies on Flaubert, Maupassant and realism, he has written a number of books on music. Dumesnil won [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/rene-dumesnil four prizes awarded by the Académie française]. Provided by Wikipedia