Gaston Roupnel

Louis Gaston Félicien Roupnel (born September 23, 1871 in the train station of Laissey , † May 14, 1946 in Gevrey-Chambertin ) was a French social and regional historian.

Roupnel was the son of the station manager of Gevrey-Chambertin. His father was originally from Normandy and his mother from Bourgogne . He went to school in Dijon , where he also studied from 1892 to 1895 (as well as at the Sorbonne ). He then went to school in Épinal , Douai , La Flèche and from 1910 in Dijon, where he stayed until his retirement in 1938.

In 1922 he received his doctorate on Dijon and its rural surroundings in the 17th century. He then became a professor at the University of Dijon. His regional history studies of Bourgogne and the French rural population were positively received by the Annales School , which also took up his ideas of structural historiography ( Fernand Braudel ). He was known for his history of rural France ( Histoire de la campagne française ) from 1932, which was also praised for its literary qualities. It received the Prix Maujean of the Academie Francaise in 1934.

He was also a journalist and novelist whose novel Nono was a huge hit and who missed the Prix Goncourt in 1910 by just one vote. Another successful novel was Le Vieux Garain 1914. His articles and short stories are collected in Hé, Vivant (1927). He was friends with Gaston Bachelard .

In 1927 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor . From 1923 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-lettres de Dijon .

Pierre de Saint Jacob is one of his students .

Fonts (selection)

• La ville et la campagne au XVIIe siècle: études sur les populations du pays Dijonnais . Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris 1922
• Histoire de la campagne française . Grasset, Paris 1932
• Histoire et Destins . Grasset, Paris 1943
• La Bourgogne. Types et coutumes . Editions des Horizons de France, Paris 1936

literature

• Philip Whalen: Gaston Roupnel, 1871–1946 , in Philip Daileader, Philip Whalen (Eds.), French Historians, 1900–2000 , Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Philip Whalen: Dijon et la Bourgogne selon Gaston Roupnel , Dijon: Éditions CLEA, 2009
• Philip Whalen: Gaston Roupnel, âme paysanne et sciences humaines , Dijon, Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2001.
• Philip Whalen: La Carrière de Gaston Roupnel et le Mouvement des idées de la première moitié du XXe siècle . In: Annales de Bourgogne 72, 2000, pp. 1-55.

Web links

• Oxford Companion to French Literature