Sully Prudhomme elected to the Académie française in 1881. Another distinction, "Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur", was to follow in 1895. After, "Le Bonheur", Prudhomme turned from poetry to write essays on aesthetics and philosophy. He published two important essays: "L'Expression dans les beaux-arts" (1884) and "Réflexions sur l'art des vers" (1892), a series of articles on Blaise Pascal in "La Revue des Deux Mondes" (1890), and an article on free will ("La Psychologie du Libre-Arbitre", 1906) in the "Revue de métaphysique et de morale". The first writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (given "in special recognition of his poetic
Sully-André Peyre Sully-André Peyre Sully-André Peyre (1890-1961) was a French poet and essayist. He wrote both in Provençal and in French. He won a prize from the Académie française. Sully-André Peyre was born on 9 September 1890 in Le Cailar, Gard, France. He grew up in Mouriès, Bouches-du-Rhône. Peyre published "Lou Secret", a Provençal paper in 1918. A year later, in 1919, he founded "La Regalido", another Provençal journal, with Elie Vianes. He was the founder and editor of "Marsyas", a Provençal review, from 1921 to 1961. Peyre was the author of many poetry collections and essays. He wrote both in Provençal