Laurent Michard

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Laurent Michard (born January 16, 1915 in Saint-Etienne , † February 27, 1984 in Paris ) was a French literary historian and textbook author.

life and work

Michard grew up in Aveizieux Loire (where he is buried). He attended high school in Saint-Etienne and in 1934 became a student at the École normal supérieure . In 1937 he passed the Agrégation de lettres and became a high school teacher in Toulouse , later at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. He ended his career as an inspector general of education.

Together with André Lagarde (who was his colleague in Toulouse) he created (for school use) from 1948 to 1962 in 6 volumes the most famous and best-selling literary history of France, the "Lagarde et Michard", which, as the Bordas publishing house's answer to the " Castex-Surer ”(by Pierre-Georges Castex and Paul Surer) by the Hachette publishing house, which developed the richly illustrated connection between biography and anthology (with commentary). The work has seen numerous editions up to the present day. Although it was no longer used as a school book from 1992, it had long since become a classic and a sure-fire success by then.

Works (with André Lagarde )

  • Moyen Age, Paris 1948
  • XVIe siècle, Paris 1949
  • XVIIe siècle, Paris 1951
  • XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1953
  • XIXe siècle, Paris 1955
  • XXe siècle, Paris 1962 (with the collaboration of Raoul Audibert, Henri Lemaître and Thérèse Van der Elst)

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personal data
SURNAME Michard, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Etienne
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1984
Place of death Paris