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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut (14 June 1825 – 10 December 1895), was a French critic.
He was born at Limoges. He began to write for the "Revue des deux mondes" in 1847, contributing between 1851 and 1857 a series of articles on the English and American novel, and in 1857 he became chief literary critic of the review. Émile Montégut translated "Essais de philosophie américaine" (1850) from Ralph Waldo Emerson; "Revolution de 1688"
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