Roger Duchêne

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Roger Duchêne (born February 3, 1930 in Saint-Nazaire , † April 25, 2006 in Marseille ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Duchêne was of Breton origin, but from 1848 attended school in Marseille. As Agrégé de lettres classiques, he taught from 1955 to 1959 in Bourg-en-Bresse and Marseille. In 1960 he became assistant at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and in 1964 Maître de Conférences. He completed his habilitation in 1969 with René Pintard with the Thèse Madame de Sévigné et la lettre d'amour (Paris 1970, 1992) and was professor in Aix-en-Provence from 1970 to 1990 . In 1971 he founded the Center méridional de rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle (CMR 17) and headed it until 1998. From 1972 he was a member of the Académie de Marseille (from 1999 to 2000 also its director). He organized more than 20 colloquia. In addition to his university teaching, Duchêne achieved a considerable degree of awareness among the educated French public through his award-winning books and his media presence (in Marseille as in Paris).

Other works

Madame de Sévigné

  • Mme de Sévigné, Paris 1968 (Les écrivains devant Dieu)
  • (Ed.) Madame de Sévigné, Correspondance, Paris 1972-1974-1978, 2005 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
  • Madame de Sévigné, ou, la chance d'être femme, Paris 1982, 1996, 2002
  • Écrire au temps de Mme de Sévigné. Lettres et texte littéraire, Paris 1981, 1982
  • Chère Madame de Sévigné ..., Découvertes Gallimard series (nº 253), Paris 1995, 2004
  • Naissances d'un écrivain. Madame de Sévigné, Paris 1996
  • (Ed. With Pierre Ronzeaud) Autour de Mme de Sévigné. Deux colloques pour un tricentenaire, Seattle 1997

Marseille and Provence

  • Marseille, Rennes 1981
  • Marseille au passé, Le Coteau 1982
  • Et la Provence devint française, Paris 1982;
  • La Provence devient française 536-1789, Paris 1986; Naissance d'une région 1945-1985, Paris 1986 (Histoire de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 1; 3)
  • Histoires de Marseille, Marseille 1989
  • Histoire de Marseille. 26 siècles d'aventures (preface by Jean-Claude Gaudin ), Marseille 1999, 2005
  • (with Jean Contrucci) Marseille. 2600 ans d'histoire, Paris 1999

other topics

  • À la Recherche de l'Université, Paris 1972
  • (Ed.) Courrier. Lettres de Louis Brauquier à Gabriel Audisio (1920-1960), Marseille 1982
  • Ninon de Lenclos. La courtisane du Grand Siècle, Paris 1984, 1987, 2000
  • L'Imposture littéraire dans les "Provinciales" de Pascal, Aix-en-Provence / Marseille 1984, 1985
  • Madame de La Fayette. La romancière aux cent bras, Paris 1988, 2000
  • (Ed.) Mme de La Fayette, Oeuvres complètes, Paris 1990
  • La Fontaine, Paris 1990, 1995
  • (Ed. With Jacqueline Duchêne) Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, Paris 1993
  • L'Impossible Marcel Proust, Paris 1994
  • Molière, Paris 1998, 2006
  • Les précieuses, ou, Comment l'esprit vint aux femmes, Paris 2001
  • Etre femme au temps de Louis XIV, Paris 2004
  • Comme une lettre à la poste. Les progrès de l'écriture personnelle sous Louis XIV, Paris 2006

literature

  • Correspondances. Mélanges offerts à Roger Duchêne, ed. by Wolfgang Leiner and Pierre Ronzeaud, Tübingen 1992 (with list of publications)
  • Pierre Ronzeaud, obituary in: Le XVIIe siècle 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Duchêne, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Nazaire
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2006
Place of death Marseille