Pierre Moreau
Pierre Moreau (born August 22, 1895 in Antibes , † July 17, 1972 in Paris ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.
life and work
Moreau went to school in Nice, studied in Paris and Lyon, passed the Agrégation des lettres in 1920 and was briefly a high school teacher in Albi. From 1921 to 1934 he was professor of French literary history at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . He completed his habilitation in 1932 with the Thèses Le Classisme des romantiques (Paris 1932) and Ferdinand Denis (1798-1890), journal (1829-1848) (Friborg 1932). Then he was from 1934 to 1945 professor at the University of Franche-Comté (there from 1937 to 1942 also dean). Then he was a professor at the Sorbonne .
Moreau was the son-in-law of Victor Giraud .
Other works
- Le victorieux XXe siècle, Paris 1925
- Chateaubriand. L'homme et la vie, le génie et les livres, Paris 1927
- Le romantisme, Paris 1932, 1957 (Histoire de la littérature française, vol. 8, edited by Jean Calvet )
- La conversion de Chateaubriand, Paris 1933
- (Ed.) Bossuet, Choix d'Oraisons funèbres, Paris 1933
- L'Histoire en France au XIXe siècle. État présent des travaux et esquisse d'un plan d'études, Paris 1935
- Les "Destinées" d'Alfred de Vigny, Paris 1936, 1946
- Montaigne. L'homme et l'œuvre, Paris 1939, 1953, 1958, 1966
- Racine. L'homme et l'œuvre, Paris 1943, 1956, 1959, 1971
- Victor Giraud , Paris 1944
- Maurice Barrès, Paris 1946
- Sainte-Beuve, poète latin, Besançon 1949
- Chateaubriand. L'homme et l'œuvre, Paris 1956, 1960, 1962, 1967, 1969
- La tradition française du poème en prose avant Baudelaire, Paris 1959, 1969
- La critique littéraire en France, Paris 1960, 1969
- "Les Contemplations" or Le temps retrouvé, Paris 1962
- Amours romantiques, Paris 1963
- La critique selon Sainte-Beuve, Paris 1964
- Maurice de Guérin ou les métamorphoses d'un Centaure, Paris 1965
- Sylvie et ses soeurs nervaliennes, Paris 1966
- Barrès, Paris 1970 (Les Ecrivains devant Dieu)
- L'offrande lyrique de Paul Claudel. L'époque des "Grandes Odes" et du "Processionnal", Paris 1969, 1971
- Le Moi et le sentiment de l'existence dans la littérature française contemporaine 1966-1970, Paris 1973
- (Ed.) Chateaubriand, Atala. René. Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage, Paris 1978
literature
- Pierre Moreau, Ames et thèmes romantiques, Paris 1965 (with bio-bibliography)
- Rose Fortassier, [obituary] in: Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 73, 1973, pp. 586-590
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Moreau in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Moreau, Pierre |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance studies and literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1895 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Antibes |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1972 |
Place of death | Paris |