Jacques Chouillet
Jacques Chouillet (* 1915 ; † February 19, 1990 in Paris ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar .
life and work
Chouillet entered the École normal supérieure in 1935 , passed the Agrégation de lettres classiques and taught in Morocco , then a French protectorate . During the Second World War , he was held in German captivity for a long time. After the war he was first assistant at the University of Caen . He completed his habilitation in 1972 at the University of Paris IV with La formation des idées esthétiques de Diderot 1745-1763 (Paris 1973) and became professor at the University of Paris III ( Sorbonne Nouvelle ) in 1977 , later also its president. In 1985 he founded the Société Diderot and its magazine Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie .
Other works
- Descartes et leprobleme de l'origine des langages au XVIIIe siècle , 'Dix-huitième siècle', 4, 1972, pp. 39-60
- L'esthétique des Lumières, Paris 1974
- Diderot, Paris 1977
- (Ed. With Anne-Marie Chouillet) Diderot, Oeuvres complètes X, Fiction II, Le drame bourgeois, Paris 1982
- (Ed.) Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau. Satire seconde, Paris 1982
- (Ed. With Anne-Marie Chouillet) Diderot, La religieuse, Paris 1983, 1986
- (Ed. With Anne-Marie Chouillet) Diderot, Jacques le fataliste, Paris 1983, 1991
- Diderot. Poète de l'énergie, Paris 1984
- (Ed. With Gita May) Diderot, [Salons] [I], Essais sur la peinture. Salons de 1759, 1761, 1763, Paris 1984, 2007 (Diderot, Œuvres complètes)
- (Ed. With Anne-Marie Chouillet) Traitements informatiques de textes du 18ème siècle: actes de la Table ronde, VIe Congrès international des Lumières (Bruxelles, 24-31 June 1983), Paris 1984
- (Ed. With Anne-Marie Chouillet) Diderot, Le Rêve de d'Alembert et autres écrits philosophiques, Paris 1984
- (Ed. With Anne-Marie Chouillet) Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau; Satires, contes et entretiens, Paris 1984 1986, 1991, 1992
- Denis Diderot – Sophie Volland. Un dialogue à une voix, Geneva / Paris 1986
literature
- L'encyclopédie, Diderot, l'esthétique. Mélanges en hommage à Jacques Chouillet, ed. by Sylvain Auroux, Dominique Bourel and Charles Porset, Paris 1991
- René Pomeau , In Memoriam Jacques Chouillet, in: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 90, 1991
- John Pappas, [Obituary] in: Diderot Studies 24, 1991, pp. 245-246
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacques Chouillet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chouillet, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1915 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1990 |
| Place of death | Paris |