Roger Pierrot
Roger Pierrot (born February 11, 1920 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † March 1, 2015 in Ivry-sur-Seine ) was a French librarian, Romance scholar and literary scholar.
life and work
Pierrot began in 1943 at the Bibliothèque Nationale (today: Bibliothèque nationale de France ) a career as a librarian, which led him in 1968 to the post of chief curator (1972–1975 president of the French librarianship). Pierrot organized numerous exhibitions at his library. He completed his habilitation in 1974 at the University of Paris III with research on Honoré de Balzac , whose correspondence he edited and to which he devoted an extensive biography (as well as Balzac's wife Ewelina Hańska ).
Works
- (Ed.) Balzac, Contes drolatiques , Pari, Gallimard, 1959 (Comédie humaine 11; Bibliothèque de la Pléiade).
- (Ed.) Correspondance de Balzac , 5 vols., Paris, Classiques Garnier, 1960–1969.
- (Ed. With Hervé Yon), Correspondance de Balzac , 3 vols., Paris, Gallimard, 2006–2011 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade).
- (Ed.) Lettres à Madame Hanska , 4 vols., Paris, Delta, 1967–1971; 2 vols., Paris, Robert Laffont, 1990 (Bouquins).
- (Ed. With Marie Cordroc'h and Loïc Chotard) Correspondance d'Alfred de Musset , Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1985.
- Honoré de Balzac , Paris, Fayard, 1994, 1999.
- Ève de Balzac , Paris, Stock, 1999.
literature
- Pour Balzac and pour les livres. Homage to Roger Pierrot. Colloque de 1996 , Paris, Klincksieck, 1999 (with list of publications).
Web links
- Literature by and about Roger Pierrot in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Roger Pierrot in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pierrot, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French librarian, Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuilly-sur-Seine |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 2015 |
| Place of death | Ivry-sur-Seine |