Gérald Antoine

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Gérald Antoine (born July 5, 1915 in Paris ; † January 26, 2014 there ) was a French university politician, Romance philologist , linguist and literary scholar.

life and work

Antoine attended the Lycée Condorcet and passed the Agrégation de grammaire in 1939 . He taught at the Écoles Normales Supérieures of Saint-Cloud and Fontenay-aux-Roses , as well as at the high school in Vendôme . From 1940 to 1942 he was an artillery soldier in German captivity. From 1947 to 1954 he taught as Maître de conférences at the University of Clermont-Ferrand .

He completed his habilitation in 1954 with the Thèses La coordination en français (2 vols., Paris 1959–1962, Fleury-sur-Orne 1996–2001) and (ed.) Sainte-Beuve , Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme (Paris 1957 , Saint-Pierre du Mont 2002) and was Maître de conférences at the Sorbonne until 1957 . From 1957 to 1978 he was there professor for the history of the French language from the 16th century, from 1978 until his retirement in 1983 at the University of Paris III professor for French literature.

Between 1960 and 1978, Antoine was an advisor to various French ministers and politicians, especially from 1968 in the Ministry of Education. From 1962 to 1973 he was rector of the newly founded teaching administration province (French Académie ) Orléans-Tours and as such co-founder of the universities of Orléans (1960) and Tours (1969).

From 1966 to 1972, Antoine was responsible for the reprint of Ferdinand Brunot's multi-volume French language history , as well as the publication of three supplementary volumes from the most recent times (1985, 1995, 2000).

Antoine was Mayor of Allarmont from 1983 to 1987 , which is where his grave is.

Antoine was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique (1982) and the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (1997). He was the commander of the Legion of Honor .

Works

Paul Claudel

  • Les Cinq grandes Odes de Claudel ou La poésie de la répétition , Paris 1959
  • Paul Claudel ou L'enfer du génie , Paris 1988, 2004
  • (Ed.) Claudel, Partage de Midi , Paris 1994, Lausanne 1997

Other works

  • Vis-à-vis ou Le Double regard critique , Paris 1952, 1982
  • Le rôle impressif des liaisons de phrases chez André Gide, in: Studia romanica. Commemorative publication for Eugen Lerch , Stuttgart 1955, pp. 22–81
  • (with Jean-Claude Passeron) La réforme de l'université , Paris 1966 (foreword by Raymond Aron )
  • Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou Les fluctuations d'une devise , Paris 1981, 1989

Editorial activity

  • Nerval, Poésies , Paris 1947
  • (with Robert-Léon Wagner and Pierre Clarac ) Le XVIe siècle. Textes choisis et commentés , Paris 1950
  • Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires , Paris 1993
  • Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de femmes , Paris 1998
  • Morale et langue française , Paris 2004
  • (with Bernard Duchatelet) Une amitié perdue et retrouvée. Paul Claudel. Romain Rolland , Paris 2005

Supplementary volumes on Ferdinand Brunot's linguistic history

  • (with Robert Martin) Histoire de la langue française des origines à nos jours (1880–1914) , Paris 1985
  • (with Robert Martin) Histoire de la langue française des origines à nos jours (1914–1945) , Paris 1995
  • (with Bernard Cerquiglini ) Histoire de la langue française des origines à nos jours (1945–2000) , Paris 2000

literature

  • Au bonheur des mots. Mélanges en l'honneur de Gérald Antoine , ed. by Gilbert Boissier and Danielle Bouverot, Nancy 1984
  • Jean-Claude Chevalier, Combats pour la linguistique de Martinet à Kristeva. Essai de dramaturgie épistémologique , Lyon 2006, pp. 83–93.

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personal data
SURNAME Antoine, Gérald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antoine, Gérald Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French university politician, Romance studies, linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2014
Place of death Paris