Charles-Louis Livet

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Charles-Louis Livet (born October 1, 1828 in Château-la-Vallière , Indre-et-Loire department , † 1897 in Montpellier ) was a French Romanist .

life and work

Livet came from Touraine . He was a journalist, administrator, inspector général de l'enseignement technique et des écoles d'arts et métiers (1870), inspector des aux de Vichy (1874) and above all a historian of French literature and language. Ferdinand Brunot regarded him as his teacher and after his death bought the extensive private library that is now in the University Library of Tours University .

Livet was a Knight of the Legion of Honor (1862).

Works

author

  • Lexique de la langue de Molière, comparée à celle des écrivains de son temps , Paris 1845–1847, 3 vols., 1895–1897, Hildesheim 1970, Paris 1972
  • La grammaire française et les grammairiens du XVIe siècle , Paris 1859, Geneva 1967
  • Précieux et Précieuses. Caractères et moeurs littéraires du XVIIe siècle , Paris 1859, 1860, 1870, 1895, 1897, Coeuvres-et-Valsery 2001
  • Portraits du grand siècle. Madame de Fiesque, Marie Mancini, Mademoiselle de Valois, Madame de Chantal, Louis XIV, Antoine Corneille, Charles de Simiane, Saint-Amant, Philippe Cospeau, Fléchier, Racan , Paris 1885, 1886

editor

  • Oeuvres complètes de Saint-Amant . Nouvelle édition publiée sur les manuscrits inédits et les éditions anciennes, Paris 1855, Nendeln 1972
  • Le dictionnaire des précieuses par le sieur de Somaize . Nouvelle édition, Paris 1856, Hildesheim / New York 1972
  • Histoire de l'Académie française par Pellisson et d'Olivet, Paris 1858, Geneva 1989

(as well as the works Molière , Paris 1882–1888)

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personal data
SURNAME Livet, Charles-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Château-la-Vallière
DATE OF DEATH 1897
Place of death Montpellier