Edmond Faral

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Edmond Faral (born March 18, 1882 in Médéa , † February 8, 1958 in Paris ) was a French Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Faral attended school in Algiers and Paris ( Lycée Henri IV ). He studied at the École normal supérieure and in 1906 passed the Agrégation de grammaire. From 1907 to 1919 he was a high school teacher at the Ecole alsacienne in Paris (and a decorated warrior). He completed his habilitation in 1910 with the two theses Les Jongleurs en France au Moyen Âge (Paris 1910, 1964, 1971) and Mimes français du XIIIe siècle. Contribution à l'histoire du théâtre comique au moyen age (Paris 1910, Geneva 1973). From 1920 to 1925 he was Directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études , then until 1955 at the Collège de France Professor of Medieval Literature, from 1937 also its director (administrator). In 1936 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . Faral carried the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor .

Other works

Monographs

  • Recherches sur les sources latines des contes et romans courtois du Moyen Âge, Paris 1913, 1983
  • Les Arts poétiques du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle. Recherches et documents sur la technique littéraire du moyen age, Paris 1924, 1958; Geneva / Paris 1982
  • La legend arthurienne. Études et documents, 3 vol., Paris 1929, 1993
  • La Chanson de Roland. Etude et analyze, Paris 1933
  • Petite grammaire de l'ancien français, Paris 1941, 1953, 1993
  • La Vie quotidienne au temps de Saint Louis, Paris 1942, 1956, 1978 ( La vie quotidienne )
  • Jean Buridan, maître ès arts de l'Université de Paris, in: Histoire littéraire de la France 28, 1950
  • Guillaume de Digulleville, moine de Châalis, in: Histoire littéraire de la France 39, 1952

Editorial activity

  • Courtois d'Arras. Jeu du XIIIe siècle, Paris 1911, 1922, 1980
  • Gautier d'Aupais. Poème courtois du XIIIe siècle, Paris 1919, 1970
  • (with Léopold-Albert Constans [1891-1936]) Le Roman de Troie en prose, Paris 1922
  • Ermold Le Noir. Poème sur Louis le Pieux et Epîtres au roi Pépin, Paris 1932, 1964
  • Villehardouin, La Conquête de Constantinople, Paris 1939, 1961, 1973
  • (with Julia Bastin ) Onze poèmes de Rutebeuf concernant la croisade, Paris 1946
  • De Babione. Poème comique du XIIe siècle, Paris 1948
  • (with Julia Bastin ) Œuvres complètes de Rutebeuf , 2 vols., Paris 1959-1960, 1969, 1977-1985

literature

  • Ernst Robert Curtius , European Literature and Latin Middle Ages. Eleventh edition, Tübingen / Basel 1993, p. 388 ("It is EDMOND FARAL's merit to be the first to recognize the influence of Middle Latin poetics on Old French poetry.")
  • Louis Renou, [obituary] in: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 102, 1958, pp. 36-40 ( http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript / article / crai_0065-0536_1958_num_102_1_10844 )
  • Christophe Charle / Eva Telkès, Les professeurs du Collège de France. Dictionnaire biographique 1901-1939, Paris 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Faral, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Médéa
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1958
Place of death Paris