Paul Vernière

Paul Vernière (* 1916 ; † 1997 ) was a French literary scholar and university professor . Until 1995 he was a professor at the Sorbonne .

Vernière proved that the novel Jacques the Fatalist and His Lord by Denis Diderot "took place over a period of almost 20 years" and therefore "should represent a well thought out and mature work down to the last 'disorder'".

Work (selection)

Lumières ou clair-obscur? : 30 essais sur Diderot et quelques autres , Paris, 1988
Montesquieu et l'esprit des lois ou la raison impure , Paris 1977
Diderot, ses manuscrits et ses copistes: essai d'introduction à une éd. Moderne de ses oeuvres , Paris, 1967
Spinoza et la pensée française avant la révolution , Paris, 1954

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Vernière in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Erich Köhler: "Est-ce que l'on sait où l'on va?" - on the structural unity of Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son maître , in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 16 (1965), pp. 128–148 ( full text) (PDF; 2.3 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Vernière, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1916
DATE OF DEATH	1997

[1] Erich Köhler: "Est-ce que l'on sait où l'on va?" - on the structural unity of Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son maître , in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 16 (1965), pp. 128–148 ( full text) (PDF; 2.3 MB)