René Dumesnil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

René Dumesnil

French physician and musicologist

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1879

Place of Birth: Rouen, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1967

Profession: physician, music critic, literary critic, musicologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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 four prizes awarded by the Académie française.