Guy Raynaud de Lage

Guy Raynaud de Lage (born December 5, 1905 , † December 27, 1993 in Royat ) was a French Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Guy Raynaud de Lage graduated from the École normal supérieure and was initially a high school teacher. In 1947 he completed his habilitation in Paris with the thesis Alain de Lille, poète du XIIe siècle (Montréal / Paris 1951) and became professor of French language and literature in the Middle Ages in Clermont-Ferrand . In 1975 he retired .

Guy Raynaud de Lage was co-founder (1937) and General Secretary (1937-1948) of the SGEN (Syndicat général de l'éducation nationale).

Works (selection)

• (Ed. With Robert Bossuat) Les Évangiles des domées, Paris 1955
• Introduction à l'ancien français, Paris 1958, 11th edition 1981; ed. by Geneviève Hasenohr 1990, 1993
• Manuel pratique d'ancien français, Paris 1964, 1983
• (with Robert Bossuat and Louis Pichard) Le Moyen Age, in: Dictionnaire des lettres françaises, ed. by Mgr Georges Grente u. a., Paris 1964 (767 pages); Ed. entièrement revue et mise à jour sous la dir. de Geneviève Hasenohr et Michel Zink, Paris 1992, 1994 (61 + 1506 pages)
• (Ed.) Le roman de Thèbes, 2 vols., Paris 1966-1968, 1991, 2000
• (Ed.) Douin de Lavesne, Trubert. Fabliau du XIIIe siècle, Geneva / Paris 1974, Geneva 2003
• (Eds.) Gautier d'Arras, Éracle, Paris 1976
• (Ed.) Choix de fabliaux, Paris 1986
• (Ed. With Herman Braet) Tristran et Iseut. Poème du XIIe siècle, Paris / Leuven 1989, 1999

literature

• Guy Raynaud de Lage, Les premiers romans français et autres études littéraires et linguistiques, Geneva 1976 (with appreciation by Omer Jodogne and list of publications)
• Madeleine Singer, Le SGEN des origines à nos jours, Paris 1987, 1993