Frédéric Deloffre

Frédéric Deloffre (born July 27, 1921 in Aniche , Département Nord , † April 4, 2008 in Antony ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar .

life and work

Deloffre became a student of the École normal supérieure in 1941 and passed the Agrégation de grammaire in 1944. He then taught in Lille, Lyon and Saarbrücken. In 1953 he completed his habilitation with the Thèses Marivaux et le Marivaudage. Une préciosité nouvelle. Étude de langue et de style (Paris 1955, 1967, Geneva 1993, 2009) and (Ed.) Marivaux, Le petit-maître corrigé (Geneva / Lille 1955). From 1962 to 1987 he was Professor of French Philology at the Sorbonne .

Deloffre made a name for himself as the discoverer of documents and editor of Robert Challe and Les Illustres Françaises (Paris 1959), of Gabriel de Guilleragues , author of Les Lettres portugaises (1962), and as editor of Marivaux, Voltaire and Prévost.

Other works (selection)

• (Ed.) Agréables conférences de deux paysans de Saint-Ouen et de Montmorency sur les affaires du temps 1649-1651, Paris 1961, Geneva 1999 (important for the history of speaking French)
• La phrase française, Paris 1967, 1969, 1975, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1990
• La nouvelle en France à l'âge classique, Paris 1968
• Le vers français, Paris 1969, 1973, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1991
• Stylistique et poétique françaises, Paris 1970, 1974, 1981
• Guide pratique du "Program commun", Paris 1977
• (Ed.) Autour d'un roman, Les illustres Françaises de Robert Challe, Paris 1992
• Robert Challe, un destin, une oeuvre, Paris 1992
• (Ed. With Jacques Cormier) Voltaire et sa grande "amie". Correspondance complète de Voltaire et de Mme Bentinck , 1740-1778, Oxford 2003

literature

• Sylvain Menant in: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 109 . 2009, pp. 747-749

Web links

• Literature by and about Frédéric Deloffre in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Homage to Frédéric Deloffre (French)
• In memoriam Frédéric Deloffre (1921-2008) (French)