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Robert Mauzi (* 1927 in Toulouse ; † August 8, 2006 ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Mauzi graduated from the École normal supérieure , was a scholarship holder of the Fondation Thiers (1950), where he met Michel Foucault , worked as (as an assistant at the University of Lyon) in Paris and in 1960 with the two theses L'Idée du bonheur dans la littérature et la pensée françaises au XVIIIe siècle (Paris 1960, Geneva / Paris 1979, Paris 1994) and (ed.) Mme Du Châtelet, Discours sur le bonheur (Paris 1961). From 1962 to 1969 he was a professor at the University of Lyon , from 1970 at the University of Paris IV .

Other works

• (Ed.) Charles Nodier, Contes et nouvelles. Oeuvres choisies, Paris 1953
• (Ed.) Denis Diderot, La Religieuse, Paris 1962, 1993
• (Ed.) Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie, Paris 1966
• (with Sylvain Menant) Le XVIII siècle. 1750-1778, Paris 1977 (Littérature française 10.2, edited by Claude Pichois); (with Michel Delon and Sylvain Menant) and T. De l'Encyclopédie aux Méditations 1750-1820, Paris 1984, 1989, 1998 (Littérature française 6, edited by Claude Pichois)
• (Ed.) Abbé Prévost, Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, Paris 1980
• Précis de littérature française du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1990
• Maintenant sur ma route, Orléans 1994
• L'art de vivre d'une femme au XVIIIe siècle. Avant-propos de Henri Coulet. Suivi du Discours sur le bonheur, de madame Du Châtelet, Paris 2008

literature

• Amicitia Scriptor. Littérature, Histoire des idées, Philosophy. Mélanges offerts à Robert Mauzi, ed. by Annie Becq, Charles Porset and Alain Mothu, Paris 1998
• Michel Delon in: Bulletin de la Société française d'étude du dix-huitième siècle 63, 2007, pp. 2–3
• Le Monde August 23, 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Mauzi in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)