Alfred Mézières

Alfred Jean François Mézières (19 November 1826, in Réhon – 10 October 1915, in Réhon) was a French journalist, politician and historian of literature.

[1] Alfred Mézières was educated at Metz College and the École Normale Supérieure.

He published studies on Shakespeare, Petrarch, Dante and Goethe and was elected to the Academie Francaise on January 29, 1874.

He was elected to the Assemblee Nationale as the deputy of Meurthe-et-Moselle in 1881 and served until 1898.

In September 1914, the German army occupied Meziere’s house in Rehon and held him hostage.