Émile Chartier

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Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain (Mortagne-au-Perche, 3 March 1868 – Le Vésinet, 2 June 1951) was a famous French philosopher, journalist and pacifist.^[1]

Alain entered lycée d'Alençon in 1881 and studied there for five years. On 13 June 1956, the lycée was renamed lycée Alain, after its most famous student.

After Alain was qualified at the École Normale Supérieure and received agrégation of philosophy, he taught at various institutions, Pontivy, Lorient, Rouen (lycée Corneille) and in Paris (Lycée Condorcet and Lycée Michelet). From 1903, he contributed to several journals using his pseudonym, Alain. In 1909, he was appointed to the professor of Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. He deeply influenced his pupils, who included Raymond Aron, Simone Weil, Georges Canguilhem and André Maurois.^[1]

He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Among his most important publications are The Dreamer, 81 chapters about the spirit and passions, About Happiness, Mars, and The citizen against powers.^[1]

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• Alain, Alain on happiness, New York, Ungar, 1973.
• Alain, the Gods, New directions, 1974.
• Alain, Mars; Or the truth about war, New York, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith N.D.
• Alain, Small Treaty of Harmony for the blind, (in braille) 1918.

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