Scherer, Edmond, French critic, born in Paris, spent his early years in England, his mother being English; was for some time devoted to theology and the Church, but changed his views; settled in Paris, and took to journalism and politics, distinguishing himself more especially in literary criticism (1815‒1889).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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