Pierre Flottes

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Pierre Flottes (born March 15, 1895 in Limoges , † February 24, 1994 in Bordeaux ) was a French historian, Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Flottes passed the Agrégation in history and geography in 1919 and completed his habilitation in 1926 at the University of Strasbourg with the two theses La pensée politique et sociale d ' Alfred de Vigny (Paris 1927) and L'Influence d'Alfred de Vigny sur Leconte de Lisle (Paris 1926). From 1927 to 1930 he was a high school teacher in Rochefort-sur-Mer and from 1930 taught at the University of Bordeaux as a professor of French literature.

Flottes was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (1971). He was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Other works

Monographs

  • Baudelaire . L'Homme et le Poète , Paris 1922
  • Alfred de Vigny , Paris 1925
  • Le Poète Leconte de Lisle , Paris 1929
  • La Démocratie entre deux abîmes , Paris 1929
  • Sully Prudhomme et sa pensée , Paris 1930
  • La Révolution de l'école unique , Paris 1931
  • Le Drame intérieur de Pierre Loti , Paris 1937
  • Leconte de Lisle. L'homme et l'oeuvre , Paris 1954
  • L'Éveil de Victor Hugo 1802-1822 , Paris 1957
  • Vigny et sa fortune littéraire , Bordeaux 1970
  • Histoire de la poésie politique et sociale en France de 1815 à 1939 , Paris 1976

Editorial activity

  • (Ed.) Alfred de Vigny, Journal d'un poète. Les destinées , Paris 1949
  • (Ed.) Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal. Petits poèmes en prose , Paris 1949

literature

  • Des "lumières" à la "nuit des profondeurs". Mélanges à la mémoire de Pierre Flottes, 1895-1994 , ed. by Yolande Legrand, Talence 1999 (with picture, foreword by Alain Juppé )

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personal data
SURNAME Flottes, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian, Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Limoges
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1994
Place of death Bordeaux