Pierre Jourda

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Pierre Jourda (born November 20, 1898 in Narbonne , † April 27, 1978 in Montpellier ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Jourda graduated from high school in Paris in 1916 and then did military service. In 1922 he passed the Agrégation (Lettres) and was a high school teacher in Tourcoing for a year . From 1923 to 1925 he worked at the Institut français in Florence and as a scholarship holder of the Thiers Foundation. From 1925 to 1927 he was a high school teacher in Cahors , from 1927 to 1934 in Montpellier. In 1930 he completed his habilitation in Paris with the two theses Marguerite d'Angoulême, duchesse d'Alençon, reine de Navarre, 1492-1549. Étude biographique et littéraire (2 vols., Paris 1930, Geneva 1978) and Répertoire analytique et chronologique de la correspondance de Marguerite d'Angoulême, duchesse d'Alençon, pure de Navarre, 1492-1549 (Paris 1930, Geneva 1973). In 1934 he became Maître de conférences at the University of Montpellier . From 1936 to 1969 he was there (as successor to Joseph Vianey, 1864-1939) holder of the chair for French literature and from 1957 to 1966 also dean.

Jourda received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Birmingham, Bologna and Lisbon. He was Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences of Montpellier and recipient of several awards. A lecture hall was named after him at the University of Montpellier, and a street in Narbonne.

Other works

Monographs

  • État présent des études stendhaliennes, Paris 1930
  • Stendhal raconté par ceux qui l'ont vu, Paris 1931
  • Une Princesse de la Renaissance. Marguerite d'Angoulême, pure de Navarre (1492–1549). Corps féminin, coeur d'homme, et teste d'ange, Paris 1931, Geneva 1973
  • Stendhal. L'homme et l'oeuvre, Paris 1934
  • L'Exotisme dans la littérature française depuis Chateaubriand, 2 vols., Paris 1938, 1956, Geneva 1970
  • Guide de l'étudiant en littérature française (with Émile Bouvier), Paris 1938, 6th edition 1968, 1983
  • Le Gargantua de Rabelais, Paris 1948, 1969
  • Marot, L'homme et l'oeuvre, Paris 1950, 1967
  • (with Edouard de Moreau and Pierre Janelle) La crise religieuse du XVIe siècle, Paris 1956 (Histoire de l'Église depuis les origines jusqu'à nos jours, fondée par Augustin Fliche et Victor Martin; dirigée par Augustin Fliche et Eugène Jarry, vol . 16) (Italian: Turin 1968, 1980)
  • Histoire du théâtre à Montpellier (1755–1851), Oxford 2001

Release

  • Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir, Paris 1929
  • Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme, Paris 1931
  • Marguerite de Navarre, Comédie de la Nativité de Jésus-Christ, Paris 1939
  • Stendhal, Chroniques italiennes, Paris 1946
  • Mérimée, Colomba, Paris 1947
  • Rabelais, OEuvres complètes, Paris 1962
  • Conteurs français du XVIe siècle, Paris 1965
  • Stendhal, De l'amour (with Daniel Muller), 2 vols., Geneva 1967–1974, Paris 1986

literature

  • De Jean Lemaire de Belges à Jean Giraudoux. Mélanges d'histoire et de critique littéraire offerts à Pierre Jourda, Paris 1970 (with list of publications)

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personal data
SURNAME Jourda, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Narbonne
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1978
Place of death Montpellier