[Henri Louis]. French philosopher, born in Paris on the 18th of October 1859. Educated at the Lycée Corot, and the École Normale he was successively professor of philosophy at the Lycée dAngers 188183, at the Lycée de Clermont 188388, at the Collège Rollin 188889, at the Lycée Henry IV. 188097, at the École Normale Supérieure 18971900 and at the Collège de France 190021. In 1912 he was Gifford lecturer at Edinburgh. Of the three works which constitute together the full exposition of his interpretation of experience, Les Données Immédiates de la Conscience was published in 1889, Matière et Mémoire in 1896, and LÉvolution Créatrice in 1907. The English translations (Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution) all belong to 191011. He had published also Le Rire (1900). With the exception of a pamphlet, La Significance de la Guerre (1915), nothing more appeared until LEnergie Spirituelle (1919), with Eng. trans. Mind-Energy (1920). See also From Creative Evolution.