Ernest Seillière

Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 – 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic.

Seillière was born in Paris, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the École polytechnique. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1914.

Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud, René Grousset, Octave Aubry and Robert d'Harcourt) one of the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by Édouard Le Roy, succeeding Henri Lavedan.

He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, and was the grandfather of Ernest-Antoine Seillière.

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