Pierre Josserand

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Pierre Josserand (born January 18, 1898 in Trouville , † April 23, 1972 in Paris ) was a French librarian, Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Josserand graduated from high school in Le Havre and studied at the Sorbonne with Paul Hazard . From 1931 to 1968 he was librarian at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and from 1968 to 1972 at the Spoelberch de Lovenjoul library in Chantilly .

Josserand was president of the Association des bibliothécaires de France (ABF) from 1953 to 1955. He published the Bulletin critique du livre français for 25 years and was Secretary General and Vice President of the Association internationale des études françaises (AIEF), and also editor of the Critique magazine (from 1946).

Fonts

  • with Pierre Trahard : Bibliography des oeuvres de Prosper Mérimée. Paris 1929, New York 1971.
  • with Pierre Lambert: Catalog de reliures du XVe au XIXe siècle en vente à la librairie Gumuchian. Paris 1929.
  • with Pierre Lambert: Les livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle. 2 volumes. Paris 1930.
  • with Jean Mallion , Maurice Parturier (ed.): Prosper Mérimée: Correspondance générale. 17 volumes. Paris, Toulouse 1941-1964; Correspondance générale 1822–1840. 2 volumes. Toulouse 1972.
  • Ed .: Mémoires du comte Horace de Viel-Castel sur le règne de Napoléon III 1851–1864. 2 volumes. Paris 1942, 1979–1980.
  • Ed .: Prosper Mérimée: Carmen. Arsène Guillot. L'Abbé Aubain. Paris 1947.
  • Table générale de la Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France années 1909–1939. Geneva 1953.
  • Ed .: Alexandre Dumas: Mes mémoires. 5 volumes. Paris 1954–1968, 1989.
  • with Philippe Adrien Van Tieghem (ed.): Dictionnaire des littératures. 3 volumes. Paris 1968, 1984.
  • Ed .: Prosper Mérimée: Chronique du règne de Charles IX. Paris 1969, 1977.
  • Ed .: Prosper Mérimée: Nouvelles complètes. 2 volumes. Paris 1973–1974, 1980–1988, 2010.
  • with Robert Carlier, Samuel S. de Sacy (eds.): Larousse des citations françaises et étrangères. Paris 1975; Dictionnaire des citations françaises. Paris 1977, 2007.

literature

  • Dictionnaire de biography française. sv
  • Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France. 1973.

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personal data
SURNAME Josserand, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French librarian, Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Trouville
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1972
Place of death Paris