Gourmont

American  

[goor-mawn] / gurˈmɔ̃ /

noun

1. Remy de 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.

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Gourmont British  

/ ɡurmɔ̃ /

noun

1. Remy de (rəmi də). 1858–1915, French symbolist critic and novelist

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Example Sentences

To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with a large bronze fig leaf.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings.

From Time Magazine Archive

De Gourmont was at base a poet; also a dramatist, novelist, raconteur, man of science, critic, moralist of erudition, and, lastly, a philosopher.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

He experiments with the Remy de Gourmont idea, though he probably never saw it in print.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

The Columbia University professor would be far more likely to indorse the axiom of Remy de Gourmont that style is physiological, which Flaubert well knew.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James