René Bray

René Bray (born October 26, 1896 in Nalliers , Département Vendée , † August 1, 1954 in Lausanne ) was a French literary scholar and Romance scholar who worked in Lausanne.

life and work

Bray was a student at the École normal supérieure and taught in Tunis from 1921 . He completed his habilitation in Paris in 1926 with the two theses La formation de la doctrine classique en France (Paris 1927, Lausanne 1931, Paris 1945, 1951, 1983) and La Tragédie cornélienne devant la critique classique, d'après la querelle de Sophonisbe 1663 ( Paris 1927) and taught in Caen from 1927 to 1928 . From 1928 until his death (at the age of 57) he was Full Professor of French Literature at the University of Lausanne . Bray was Commander of the Legion of Honor (1953).

Other works

• Les fables de La Fontaine. Paris 1929, 1946
• Chronologie du romantisme, 1804–1830. Paris 1932, 1971
• (Ed.) Molière, Théâtre. 8 vols., Paris 1935–1952
• Sainte-Beuve à l'académie de Lausanne. Chronique du Cours sur Port-Royal: 1837–1838. Paris / Lausanne 1937
• Boileau. L'homme et l'œuvre. Paris 1942, 1947, 1962
• La préciosité et les précieux de Thibaut de Champagne à Jean Giraudoux. Paris 1948, 1960, 1968
• Molière. Homme de théâtre. Paris 1954, 1972

literature

• A la mémoire de René Bray. In: Etudes de lettres Année 26, No 1, Décembre 1954: Pierre Thévenaz [1913-1955]: Homage to René Bray. Pp. 3-7; Michel Chauvy: Homage des étudiants. Pp. 9-10; Publications de René Bray. Pp. 11-15; Jean Pommier : Michelet et l'architecture gothique. Pp. 17-35.
• Souvenir de René Bray. In: Etudes de Lettres. Series 2, T. 7, No 4, 1964: Jean-Charles Potterat [1932-1990]: Permanence du maître [Discours]. Pp. 198-203; Jacques Mercanton : René Bray. L'homme et l'œuvre. Pp. 204-209; René Bray: I, Problèmes de méthode. II. Études littéraires, pp. 212-243.

Web links

• Catherine Dubuis: Bray, René. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Publications by and about René Bray in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library