Géraud Venzac
Géraud Venzac (born June 9, 1901 , † April 30, 1981 ) was a French priest, monk, Romance scholar, literary scholar and lexicographer.
life and work
Venzac was ordained a priest in the diocese of Saint-Flour in 1925 and was professor of French literature at the Institut Catholique de Paris and canon from 1943 to 1961 . He completed his habilitation in 1954 with the two theses Les origines religieuses de Victor Hugo (Paris 1955, Prix Gustave Le Métais-Larivière 1956 of the Académie française ) and Les premiers maîtres de Victor Hugo (Paris 1955). In 1961 he entered the Trappist order ( Abbaye du Mont des Cats in Godewaersvelde ).
Other works
- De Chateaubriand à Barrès. Aux pays de leur enfance , Troyes 1936, Paris 1938 (preface by Jean Calvet ); Aux pays de leur enfance. Chateaubriand. Lamartine. Renan. Taine. Barrès , Paris 1956
- (Ed.) Victor Hugo, Trois cahiers de vers français [1815–1818], Paris 1952
- Au pays de Madame Bovary , Paris / Geneva 1957
- En grèce. Images et legends, sites et croquis , Paris 1957
- Jeux d'ombre et de lumière sur la jeunesse d'André Chénier , Paris 1957
- (Editor) Émile Littré , Dictionnaire de la langue française , abrégé par Amédée Beaujean . Révision et mise à jour, Paris 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964
literature
- Géraud Venzac raconte Raulhac. Journal 1916-1961. Extraits. Souvenirs , ed. by Georges Venzac, Aurillac 1983
- Géraud Venzac, Lettres de la Trappe , ed. by Pierre Vermenouze, Aurillac 1988
- Géraud Venzac, De l'alliance du trône et de l'autel sous la Restauration. Une "nuance bizarre mais réelle", ed. by Bernard Degout, Saint-Malo 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Géraud Venzac in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venzac, Géraud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French priest, monk, Romance philologist, literary scholar and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1901 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1981 |