Béatrice Didier (born 21 December 1935 in

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(ENS), where she headed a seminary exposing the relationship between literature and music. Didier is a specialist of the French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries (especially Senancour, Chateaubriand,

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) as well as of autobiographical works. She edited and published numerous works, and contributed to the ''

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'' magazine. She headed the series "Écrivains", "Écriture" and "Écrit" of the

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. She is the deputy chairwoman of the Société Chateaubriand.

Works

* * ''Chateaubriand avant le Génie du christianisme'' (ed.), Champion, 2006 * ''Oberman ou le sublime négatif'' (ed.), Presse de l'ENS, 2006 * ''Stendhal ou la dictée du bonheur'', Klincksieck, 2004 * ''D’une gaîté ingénieuse : l’Histoire de ''Gil Blas'' roman de Lesage'', Louvain ; Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2004. * ''Gil Blas de Lesage'', Gallimard, Paris, 2002 * ''Stendhal et l'État'' (dir.), Cirvi, Turin, 2002 * ''Le Journal intime'', PUF, "Littératures modernes", 2002 * ''Dictionnaire de littérature grecque ancienne et moderne'', PUF, series "Quadrige", ed. Béatrice Didier and

Jacqueline de Romilly Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (; née David, Greek: Ζακλίν ντε Ρομιγύ, 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, an ...

, 2001 * ''Diderot dramaturge du vivant'', PUF, "Écriture", 2001 *

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& Béatrice Didier, ''Dictionnaire de littérature japonaise'', PUF, Quadrige, 2000 * ''L'Écriture-femme'', PUF, "Écriture", 1999 * ''Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Pastiche et ironie,'' Editions du temps, 1998 * ''George Sand écrivain : un grand fleuve d'Amérique'', PUF, 1998 * ''Alphabet et raison. Le paradoxe des dictionnaires au XVIIIe siècle'', PUF, "Écriture", 1996 * ''Histoire de la littérature française du XVIIIe siècle'', Nathan, 1992 * ''La Littérature de la Révolution française'', PUF, "Que sais-je?", No. 2418, 1988 * ''Le Siècle des Lumières'', MA Éditions, 1987 * ''La Voix de Marianne, essai sur Marivaux'', José Corti, 1987 * ''La Musique des Lumières : Diderot, l'

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, Rousseau'', PUF, 1985 * ''Un dialogue à distance : Gide et Du Bos'', 1977 * ''Sade'', Denoël, 1976

Awards and distinctions

*Commandeur of the

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*Commandeur of the National Order of Merit *Officer of the National Order of Merit *1977:

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Montyon Prize The Montyon Prize (french: Prix Montyon) is a series of prizes awarded annually by the French Academy of Sciences and the Académie française. They are endowed by the French benefactor Baron de Montyon. History Prior to the start of the French R ...

for her work ''Un dialogue à distance : Gide et Du Bos'' *1983: Grand prix de la Critique littéraire

References

External links

Official website

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