[Jean Baptiste Joseph Émile]. French critic, born at Limoges on the 14th of June 1825. He began to write for the Revue des deux mondes in 1847, contributing between 1851 and 1857 a series of articles on the English and American novel, and in 1857 he became chief literary critic of the review. Émile Montégut translated Essais de philosophie américaine (1850) from Emerson; Révolution de 1688 (2 vols. 1853) from Macaulay’s History; and also produced the Œuvres complètes (10 vols. 1868–1873) of Shakespeare. Among his numerous critical works are Écrivains modernes d’Angleterre (3rd series, 1885–1892) and Heures de lecture d’un critique (1891), studies of John Aubrey, Pope, Wilkie Collins and Sir John Mandeville. Montégut died in Paris on the 11th of December 1895.
