Pierre Clarac
Pierre Clarac (born November 21, 1894 in Bordeaux , † December 8, 1986 in Paris ) was a French Romance scholar and literary historian.
life and work
Clarac was a student of the École normal supérieure (graduating class 1914) and made Agrégation in 1920. He was then a high school teacher and from 1940 to 1966 general inspector of education in the Lettres area. From 1964 he was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques , from 1970 to 1978 its permanent secretary. From 1962 to 1979 he was President of Société Chateaubriand . Clarac has made a name for itself primarily as a connoisseur and editor of La Fontaine, Chateaubriand and Proust.
Works
- (Ed.) Oeuvres choisies de La Fontaine , Paris 1926
- Les Grandes questions d'histoire littéraire , Paris 1933
- (Ed.) Boileau , Œuvres , Paris 1937
- (Ed.) La Fontaine , Œuvres diverses , Paris 1942
- La Fontaine. L'homme et l'œuvre , Paris 1947
- La Fontaine par lui-même , Paris 1961
- (Ed.) Laffont-Bompiani. Dictionnaire universel des lettres , Paris 1961
- L'Enseignement du français , Paris 1963
- Boileau , Paris 1964
- L'Age classique. II: 1660-1680, Paris 1969 ( Littérature française , edited by Claude Pichois, vol. 7)
- À la recherche de Chateaubriand , Paris 1975
- La Fontaine , Paris 1979
literature
- Séance publique du 27 février 1990. Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Pierre Clarac (1894-1986), par M. René Pomeau , Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris 1990
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Clarac in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Pierre Clarac in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clarac, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1986 |
| Place of death | Paris |