Claude Pichois

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Claude Pichois (born July 21, 1925 in Paris , † October 12, 2004 ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

From 1956 to 1961 Pichois was Maître de conférence at the University of Aix-en-Provence and from 1961 to 1970, as successor to Georges Blin, Professor at the University of Basel . He completed his habilitation with the two thèses Philarète Chasles et la vie littéraire au temps du romantisme (2 vols., Paris 1965) and L'Image de Jean-Paul Richter dans les lettres françaises (Paris 1963) and was professor from 1970 to 1977 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville (from 1982 to 1998 director of the Center Baudelaire there). From 1977 to 1979 he taught in Namur ( Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix ) and founded the Center de recherches Gérard de Nerval with Jean Guillaume (1918–2001). In 1979 he succeeded René Etiemble at the Sorbonne University . Charles Baudelaire , Gérard de Nerval and Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette were the central subjects of his research. He became particularly well-known as the chief editor of the monumental history of French literature, which was oriented towards the sociology of literature, entitled Littérature française (16 vols., Paris 1968–1979).

Pichois received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Neuchâtel (1983), Dublin, Trinity College (1984) and Leuwen (1999).

Other works

Monographs (selection)

  • L'Image de la Belgique dans les lettres françaises de 1830 à 1870. Esquisse méthodologique, Paris 1957
  • (with André-Michel Rousseau) La Littérature comparée, Paris 1967; New edition with Pierre Brunel and André-Michel Rousseau ud T. Qu'est-ce que la littérature comparée?, Paris 1983 (German: comparative literature. An introduction to the history, methods and problems of comparative literature, Düsseldorf 1971)
  • Baudelaire. Etudes et témoignages, Neuchâtel 1967, 1976
  • (with Jean Ziegler ) Baudelaire. Biography, Paris 1987 (English 1989; Spanish 1989; Italian 1990; German: Göttingen 1994)
  • (with Alain Brunet) Colette, Paris 1998, 2000
  • (with Jean-Paul Avice) Dictionnaire Baudelaire, Tusson 2002
  • (with Michel Brix) Dictionnaire Nerval, Tusson 2006

Editorial activities (selection)

  • (with Jacques Crépet ) Baudelaire et Asselineau, Paris 1953
  • Gérard de Nerval, Les Filles du feu, Paris 1957
  • (with William Thomas Bandy) Baudelaire devant ses contemporains, Monaco 1957
  • Jacques Crépet, Propos sur Baudelaire, Paris 1957
  • Colette, Lettres à Hélène Picard, Paris 1958
  • Colette, Lettres à Marguerite Moreno, Paris 1959
  • Jules Laforgue, Les complaintes; L'imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune; Derniers vers, Paris 1959
  • (with François Ruchon ) Iconographie de Charles Baudelaire, Geneva 1960
  • Charles Baudelaire. Critique littéraire et musicale, Paris 1961
  • (Ed.) Littérature française, 16 vols., Paris 1968-1978
    • 1. Jean-Charles Payen , Le Moyen Age I. Des origines à 1300, 1970
    • 2. Daniel Poirion , Le Moyen Age II. 1300-1480, 1971
    • 3. Yves Giraud and Marc-René Jung, La Renaissance I. 1480-1548, 1972
    • 4. Enea Balmas , La Renaissance II. 1548-1570, 1974
    • 5. Jacques Morel , La Renaissance III. 1570-1624, 1973
    • 6. Antoine Adam , L'âge classique I. 1624-1660, 1968
    • 7. Pierre Clarac , L'âge classique II. 1660-1680, 1969
    • 8. René Pomeau , L'âge classique III. 1680-1720, 1971
    • 9. Jean Ehrard, Le XVIIIe siècle I. 1720-1750, 1974
    • 10. Robert Mauzi , Le XVIIIe siècle II. 1750-1778, 1977
    • 11. Béatrice Didier, Le XVIIIe siècle III. 1778-1820, 1976
    • 12. Max Milner , Le Romantisme I. 1820-1843, 1973
    • 13. Claude Pichois, Le Romantisme II. 1843-1869, 1979
    • 14. Raymond Pouilliart, Le Romantisme III. 1869-1896, 1968
    • 15. Pierre-Olivier Walzer , Le XXe siècle I. 1896-1920, 1975
    • 16. Germaine Brée , Le XXe siècle II. 1920-1970, 1978
  • Baudelaire, Correspondance, 2 vols., Paris 1973 (Pléiade)
  • Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes, 2 vols., Paris 1975-1976 (Pléiade)
  • Littérature française, 9 vols., Paris 1983-1986, 1990; ud T. Histoire de la littérature française, 1997-1999
  • Colette, Œuvres complètes, 4 vols., Paris 1984-2001 (Pléiade)
  • (with Jean Guillaume) Gérard de Nerval, Oeuvres complètes, 3 vols., Paris 1985-1993 (Pléiade)
  • Heinrich Heine, Heine Secular Edition Vol. 16, De L'Allemagne, Commentary. Volume 1, Berlin 1995
  • (with John E. Jackson and Jean-Paul Avice) Baudelaire et l'Allemagne. L'Allemagne et Baudelaire, Paris 2004

literature

  • You romantisme au surnaturalisme. Homage to Claude Pichois, ed. by James S. Patty, Neuchâtel 1985
  • Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity. Volume in Honor of Claude Pichois, ed.Patricia Ward, Nashville 2000
  • Qui est qui en France 2001-2002, Levallois-Perret 2001
  • Pierre Brunel and Daniel-Henri Pageaux in: Revue de littérature comparée 313, 2005, pp. 121–122
  • Jürgen Grimm: literary historiography and "histoire des mentalités" using the example of Claude Pichois' "Littérature française", in: Romania historica et Romania hodierna. Festschrift for Olaf Deutschmann, ed. by Peter Wunderli and Wulf Müller, Frankfurt am Main / Bern 1982, pp. 301–324

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personal data
SURNAME Pichois, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2004