Paul Stapfer

{{Short description|French essayist (1840–1917)}}

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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 Molière selon les trois écoles philosophiques (1866)
• Fragment Inedit (1870){{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/449798|title=Laurence Sterne and Henry Baker's The Microscope Made Easy|author=New, Melvyn|year=1970|journal=Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900|volume=10|issue=3|pages=591–604|doi=10.2307/449798|jstor=449798|url-access=subscription}}
• Causeries guernesiaises (1881)
• Laurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages (2nd ed., Paris, 1882)
• 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)
• Etudes sur Goethe (1906){{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27699955|title=Reviewed Work: Etudes sur Goethe by Paul Stapfer|last=von Klenze|first=Camillo

|journal=The Journal of English and Germanic Philology |volume=8|year=1909|pages=135–138|jstor=27699955}}

• Vers la vérité (1909)