Marguerite-Marie Dubois
Marguerite-Marie Dubois (born April 5, 1915 in Limoges , † March 29, 2011 in Paris ) was a French English and Romance scholar , mediaevalist and lexicographer.
life and work
Marguerite-Marie Dubois completed her habilitation at the Sorbonne with the Thèses Ælfric sermonnaire, docteur et grammairien. Contribution à l'étude de la vie et de l'action bénédictines en Angleterre au Xe siècle (Paris 1942) and Les éléments latins dans la poésie religieuse de Cynewulf (Paris 1942). Since her teacher René Huchon committed suicide in 1940 out of desperation over the defeat of France, she was appointed to represent him before her habilitation. At the Sorbonne, she taught medieval English philology, as a full professor from 1970 until her retirement in 1983, literature and civilization of the Middle Ages in general (from the death of her colleague Jean-Robert Simon [1925–1974] also English philology).
Marguerite-Marie Dubois became particularly well-known through the English-French, French-English dictionary published by Larousse in 1960 and published over decades.
Works
Medieval Studies
- (Ed.) Le roman d'Arthur et des chevaliers de la Table Ronde. Extraits , Paris 1948; Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur. Extraits , Paris 1993
- Un pionnier de la civilization occidentale. Saint Colomban 540-615 , Paris 1950 (English: Saint Columban. A Pioneer of Western Civilization , Dublin 1961)
- La littérature anglaise du Moyen Age , Paris 1962
linguistics
- (with Charles Cestre) Grammaire complète de la langue anglaise , Paris 1949, 1972
- (with Barbara Shuey, Denis J.Keen et L. Crocker) Dictionnaire américain-français, français-américain , Paris 1955
- (with others) Dictionnaire moderne français-anglais, anglais-français , Paris 1960, 1969, 1981
- (with others) Dictionnaire français-anglais de locutions et expressions verbales , Paris 1973
- Miscellanées de philologie et d'histoire. Histoire, étymologie, lexicologie (France-Angleterre), Toulon 2009 (article from Vie et Langage , October 1952 to August 1967; foreword by André Joly)
essay
- Générations en conflit , Lyon 1963 (German: The Bridge of Understanding. The Generational Problem in the Family [translated by Leo Pollmann ], Freiburg 1964; Italian 1965, Spanish 1967)
literature
- La Chronique d'Ingulf. Hauts faits et Méfaits des Vikings en Angleterre médiévale. Roman et histoire. Volume offert à Marguerite-Marie Dubois à l'occasion de son 85e anniversaire , ed. by Colette Stévanovitch, Nancy 2000
- Jean-Pierre Mouchon, homage to M.-M. Dubois pour ses quatre-vingt-dix ans, in: Le carnet des études anglo-saxonnes et nord-américaines 25, 2005
- André Joly, Fragments d'une vie de philologue, in: Modèles linguistiques 27, 53, 2006
- Jean-Pierre Mouchon, Esquisse de l'enseignement de l'anglais et des études anglaises en France au XXe siècle (des méthodes et des hommes), Marseille 2006
- Le Monde April 1st 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Marguerite-Marie Dubois in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dubois, Marguerite-Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French English and Romance studies, mediaeval and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Limoges |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2011 |
| Place of death | Paris |