Henri Fluchère was a chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a notable literary critic. He played an important role in the establishment of a Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on Wines. He was also responsible for the libretto in Darius Milhaud's L'opéra du gueux, Op. 171 (1937), a ballad opera in three acts. In 1966 his Laurence Sterne: From Tristram to Yorick, originally in French, won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for its translation by Barbara Bray.

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• Fluchère, Henri. "Défense de la Lucidité." In T. S. Eliot: A Symposium, edited by Richard March and Tambimuttu. T. S. Eliot: A Symposium. London: Editions Poetry, 1948.
• Maguin, Jean-Marie. "Shakespeare Studies in France since 1960." Internet Shakespeare Editions. May 2002. (accessed August 14, 2009).

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