Raymond Lebègue

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Lebegue in Leuven (1966)

Raymond Lebègue (born September 16, 1895 in Paris ; † November 21, 1984 ibid) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Lebègue passed the Agrégation in 1919 and was a high school teacher in Brest and Clermont-Ferrand. From 1923 to 1941 he taught at the University of Rennes . In 1929 he completed his habilitation with the two theses La tragédie religieuse en France. Les débuts 1514–1573 (Paris 1929) and Le Mystère des Actes des Apôtres. Contribution à l'étude de l'humanisme et du protestantisme français au XVIe siècle (Paris 1929). From 1941 to 1965 he was full professor of French literature at the Sorbonne. From 1955 he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . In 1959 he founded the Institut d'Etudes théâtrales (IET) with Jacques Scherer . He was an honorary doctor of the University of Leuven.

Raymond Lebègue was the son of the Graecist and paleographer Henri Lebègue (1856–1938).

Other works

  • (Ed.) Stendhal, Armance ou quelques scènes d'un salon de Paris en 1827, Paris 1925, Geneva / Paris 1986 (preface by André Gide)
  • La Tragédie française de la Renaissance, Brussels 1944, 1954
  • La Poésie française de 1560 à 1630. De Ronsard à Malherbe. Malherbe et son temps, 2 vols., Paris 1945–1947, 1951
  • (Ed.) Robert Garnier, Œuvres complètes, Paris 1949ff
  • Ronsard. L'homme et l'œuvre, Paris 1950, 4th edition 1966
  • (Ed. With René Fromilhague) Malherbe, Oeuvres poétiques, Paris 1968
  • Le théâtre comique en France de “Pathelin” à “Mélite”, Paris 1972
  • (Ed.) Peiresc, Lettres à Malherbe 1606–1628, Paris 1976
  • Études sur le théâtre français, 2 vols., Paris 1977–1978
  • Aspects de Chateaubriand. Vie, voyage en Amérique, œuvres, Paris 1979

literature

  • Mélanges d'histoire littéraire (XVIe-XVIIe siècle) offerts à Raymond Lebègue par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis, Paris 1969 (with list of publications)
  • Robert-Henri Bautier, in: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 128, 1984, pp. 650-655

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personal data
SURNAME Lebègue, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1984
Place of death Paris