François Guessard

François Guessard (born January 29, 1814 in Passy  , † May 7, 1882 in Le Mesnil-Durand, Département Calvados ) was a French Romanist and Medievalist.

life and work

As a high school graduate, Guessard came to the École des chartes through his acquaintance with François-Juste-Marie Raynouard and worked for Augustin Thierry and Claude Fauriel . He became a co-founder of the magazine Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes . In 1846 there was a double rivalry with François Génin , whose work Des variations du langage français he reviewed sharply and with whom he rivaled for a prize from the Académie française, which was ultimately awarded to both of them ex aequo . Guessard's price paper in eight volumes with the title Vocabulaire des principales locutions de Molière prescribed by the Académie remained unprinted.

From 1847 Guessard taught at the École des chartes, first as a tutor, from 1854 as a professor (successor to Benjamin Guérard, 1797-1854). Gaston Paris and Paul Meyer were among his students . In 1867 he was accepted into the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , but after the death of his mother, with whom he lived, he retired to Normandy in 1869, was represented by Paul Meyer at the École des chartes, and did not appear more in Paris and died 13 years later. <

Guessard was the series editor (and often volume editor) of the ten volumes (with changing volume editors) of the series "Les anciens poètes de la France" (Paris 1859-1870, Nendeln 1966). The individual volumes concerned were as follows:

• 1: Gui de Bourgogne / Otinel / Floovant (François Guessard and Henri Michelant), 1859
• 2: Doon de Maience (Alexandre Pey), 1859
• 3: Gaufrey (François Guessard and Polycarpe Chabaille), 1859
• 4: Fierabras / Parise la Duchesse (Auguste Kroeber and Gustave Servois / François Guessard and Lorédan Larchey), 1860
• 5: Huon de Bordeaux (François Guessard and Charles de Grandmaison), 1860
• 6: Aye d'Avignon / Gui de Nanteuil (François Guessard and Paul Meyer), 1861
• 7: Gaydon (François Guessard and Siméon Luce), 1862
• 8: Hugues Capet (Adélaïde Édouard Le Lièvre marquis de La Grange), 1864
• 9: Macaire (François Guessard), 1866
• 10: Aliscans (François Guessard and Anatole de Montaiglon), 1870

Other works

• (Ed.) Grammaires romanes inédites, du treizième siècle, in: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 1840, pp. 125–203, 2nd edition and T. Grammaires provençales, Paris 1858, 1868, Geneva 1973
• (Ed.) Mémoires et lettres de Marguerite de Valois, Paris 1842, New York 1966
• Examen critique de l'ouvrage intitulé Des variations du langage français depuis le douzième siècle, ou, Recherches sur les principes qui devraient régler l'orthographe et la prononciation par F. Génin, in: Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes 1846
• (Ed. With Eugène de Certain [1812-1869]) Le mistère du siège d'Orléans, Paris 1862

literature

• Charles Marty-Laveaux in: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 43, 1882, pp. 565-593
• Jules-Augustin Girard in: Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Comptes-rendus 26, 1882, pp. 82-86
• Françoise Vieilliard, L'enseignement de Champollion-Figeac (1830-1848), François Guessard (1847-1869), Paul Meyer (1869-1916), Clovis Brunel (1916-1954) à l'École des chartes, in: L ' École nationale des chartes. Histoire de l'École depuis 1821, Thionville 1997