Pierre Moreau

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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

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personal data
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