Albert Feuillerat

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Albert Feuillerat (born July 16, 1874 in Toulouse , † November 3, 1952 in New Haven (Connecticut) ) was a French English, Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Feuillerat studied in Lyon, passed the Agrégation for English in 1899 and was a high school teacher in Clermont-Ferrand. In 1902 he became Maître de conférences at the University of Rennes . He completed his habilitation in English studies with the two theses John Lyly, contribution à l'histoire de la Renaissance en Angleterre (Cambridge 1910, Irvine, Alif. 1992) and Le Bureau des Menus-Plaisirs (Office of the Revels) et la mise en scène à la cour d'Élizabeth (Leuven 1910) and became professor of English in Rennes. After military service (from 1914), he traveled to the United States on a lecture mission from 1919, in close contact with his friend, Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand, and his colleague Anatole Le Braz . In 1922 he took over a professorship at the Sorbonne and then returned to his chair in Rennes, but was appointed to Columbia University in 1927 and was finally Sterling Professor of French at Yale University from 1929 until his retirement in 1943 .

Feuillerat was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Leuven and Manchester.

Albert Feuillerat was Paul Bourget's brother-in-law .

Other works

English studies

  • (Ed.) Documents relating to the office of the revels in the time of queen Elizabeth, Löwen 1908
  • (Ed.) The Complete works of Sir Philip Sidney, 3 vols., Cambridge 1912-1923, partial reprint Ann Arbor 1994
  • (Ed.) Shakespeare, Oeuvres choisies, 2 vols., Paris 1930
  • The Composition of Shakespeare's plays. Authorship. Chronology, New Haven 1953

Romance Studies

  • French life and ideals, New Haven 1925
  • Comment Marcel Proust a composé son roman, New Haven 1934, Geneva 1972, New York 1973
  • Paul Bourget. Histoire d'un esprit sous la Troisième République, Paris 1937
  • Baudelaire et la Belle aux cheveux d'or, Paris / New Haven / London 1941
  • Baudelaire et sa mère, Montreal 1944

literature

  • Dictionnaire national des contemporains, ed. by Nath Imbert, Vol. 3, Paris 1939 (with picture)
  • Essays in honor of Abert Feuillerat, New Haven 1943 (with list of publications)

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personal data
SURNAME Feuillerat, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French English, Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1952
Place of death New Haven (Connecticut)