FAURIEL, CLAUDE-CHARLES. - Writer, b. at St-Etienne, 21 Oct. 1772, d. at Paris, 15 July 1844. He maintained cultural relations with the principal French and foreign men of letters of the period (M.me de Staël, B. Constant, the Schlegel brothers, Ozanam, Stendhal, Thierry, Merimée, etc.) and was, in particular, a guest of Manzoni at Brusuglio; he translated Manzoni’s tragedies and was spiritually close to him.
From 1830 he was professor of Romance philology at the University of Paris; through his teaching and writings he furthered historical and critical studies, with views not always correct, but original and stimulating. Among his works, the following are especially noteworthy: Histoire de la Gaule méridionale sous la domination des conquérants germains (4 vols., Paris 1836); Histoire de la littérature provençale (3 vols., ibid. 1846); Doute et les origines de la langue et de la littérature italiennes (2 vols., ibid. 1854).