Julien Luchaire

Julien Luchaire

Julien Luchaire (born August 15, 1876 in Bordeaux , † May 12, 1962 in Paris ) was a French Romanist , Italianist, politician and writer.

life and work

Luchaire attended the Lycée Henri IV , then the École normal supérieure . In 1897 he passed the Agrégation de grammaire. From 1898 to 1899 he stayed at the École française de Rome , from 1900 to 1905 he taught at the University of Lyon . He completed his habilitation in 1906 with the two theses Essai sur l'évolution intellectuelle de l'Italie de 1815 à 1830 (Paris 1906) and (Ed.) Documenti per la storia dei rivolgimenti politici del comune di Siena dal 1354 al 1369 (Lyon 1906) and was Professor of Italian at the University of Grenoble from 1906 to 1919 .

In 1907 he founded (as the first institute of its kind) the Institut français of Florence and in 1916 with Guglielmo Ferrero the magazine Revue des nations latines , which appeared until 1918. After the war, Luchaire was first high official in various ministries, then general inspector of education.

From 1922 Luchaire worked as an expert in the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations with Henri Bergson . From 1925 to 1930 he led in Paris, the International Institute for intellectual cooperation (a kind of UNESCO precursor), but then came back and taught as no inspectors site was free and he the post offered to him by the head of public education in the district of Rennes refused , from 1932 to 1937 at the École pratique des hautes études . From 1937 until his retirement in 1941, he was again an inspector of education.

From 1940 to 1944 Luchaire headed from Clermont-Ferrand for (the endangered as a Jew) Léon Pierre-Quint (1895-1958) his publishing house Éditions du Sagittaire. In Clermont he lived in contact with his Strasbourg faculty , which had been evacuated there and of which he was still a member.

In addition to his scientific publications, Luchaire wrote plays, novels and an autobiography entitled Confession d'un Français moyen 1876-1950 (2 vols., Florence 1965).

Julien Luchaire was the grandson of the historian Jules Zeller (1813-1900), the son of the medievalist Achille Luchaire (1846-1908), the father of the press magnate Jean Luchaire (* 1901, executed in 1946 for collaboration), the father-in-law of the Dadaist and surrealist Théodore Fraenkel (1896–1964) and the grandfather of the actress Corinne Luchaire (1921–1950). He was married to the German writer (Jewish descent) Antonina Vallentin (* Lemberg 1893 - † Paris 1957) in his third marriage since 1929 . The fact that he was able to save his wife and her family from the anti-Semitic attacks of the Vichy regime and the Nazis probably also had to do with the fact that his son Jean was held in high regard on this side, a reputation that goes without saying (albeit weaker) transferred to him and from which he suffered after the liberation.

Other works (selection)

• (Translator) Ugo Foscolo, Les dernières lettres de Jacques Ortis , Paris 1906 (preface by Émile Faguet ), Toulouse 1986, 1991, 1994
• Les démocraties italiennes , Paris 1915, 1920, 1970
• Le désarmement moral , Paris 1932
• Les sociétés italiennes du XIIIe au XVe siècle , Paris 1933, 1954
• (Ed.) Racine, Britannicus , Paris / Clermont 1940
• Chateaugay. Roman , Paris 1943
• Confession d'un Français moyen 1876-1914 , Marseille 1943 (Editions du Sagittaire)
• (Ed.) André Chénier, Bucoliques. Pièces principales , Paris 1943
• La ceinture rose. Roman , Paris 1946
• Boccace , Paris 1951 (Italian: Boccaccio , Milan 1969)
• (Translator) Giovanni Papini, Le livre noir , Paris 1953

literature

• Isabelle Renard: L'Institut français de Florence (1900-1920). Un episode des relations franco-Italiennes au début du XXe siècle. Paris 2001.
• Maurizio Bossi, Marco Lombardi and Raphaël Muller (eds.): La cultura francese in Italia all'inizio del XX secolo. L'Istituto Francese di Firenze. Atti del Convegno per il centenario (1907-2007). Florence 2010.
• Cédric Meletta: Jean Luchaire. L'enfant perdu des années sombres. Paris 2013 (biography of the son).
• Laurent Broche: Julien Luchaire, itinéraire d'un Français faussement «moyen» pendant la tourmente . In: Pascal Mercier and Claude Pérez (eds.): [Files of the colloquium] Déplacements, dérangements, bouleversement. Artistes et intellectuels déplacés en zone sud (1940-1944). Bibliothèque de l'Alcazar, Marseille, 3-4. June 2005. Université de Provence, University of Sheffield and Bibliothèque de l'Alcazar (Marseille).

Web links

• Literature by and about Julien Luchaire in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Literature by and about Julien Luchaire in the WorldCat bibliographic database