DELAPORTE, VICTOR. - French Jesuit and man of letters, b. at St-Wandrille (Orne) on 6 Nov. 1846, d. at Rennes on 25 Apr. 1910. A Jesuit in 1866 and a priest in 1882, he was assigned in 1887 to the editorial staff of the periodical Les études, to which he contributed no fewer than 113 articles up to 1906.
Apart from the journal, his abundant output includes works of literary criticism, vigorously Catholic in tone: L'art poétique de Boileau, commenté par Boileau et par ses contemporains (Paris 1888); Classiques poênes et chrétiens (there 1894); De la rime française (Brussels 1898); Etudes et causeries littéraires (4 vols., Lille 1899); Mélanges de littérature et d'histoire (2 vols., Brussels 1907). But he owed his reputation above all to his verses, of impeccable craftsmanship: school theatre, occasional poems, and in particular 3 vols. of Récits et légendes (there 1887, 1890, and 1900), whose numerous editions attest a rare success in that genre. He also published several religious biographies or monographs, such as: Un patron chrétien (Paris 1895); Le monastère des oiseaux (there 1899); Le p. Le Tallec (there 1904).