Jean-Pierre Delarüe Caron de Beaumarchais (8 December 1944, Rome) is a French

bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

, a descendant in the female line of

Pierre Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist ...

(whose family took on the name by decree of April 25, 1853).

Biography

A former student of the

École normale supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

, agrégé de lettres classiques, Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais is the author of studies on his ancestor and several dictionaries of writers and French literatures, in collaboration with Daniel Couty and

Alain Rey Alain Rey (; – )
...

. He also translated from English. Since 2012 he is a member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, to which his stepfather also belonged. He was

Philippine de Rothschild Philippine Mathilde Camille, Baroness de Rothschild (22 November 1933 – 23 August 2014) was the owner of the French winery Château Mouton Rothschild. She acted under the stage name Philippine Pascal (imprinting on her paternal grandfather Henri d ...

's second husband. Their son Julien was born in 1971.

Publications

* ''Beaumarchais : le Voltigeur des Lumières'', coll. "

Découvertes Gallimard (, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in pocket format. The books are concise introductions to pa ...

" (nº 278), Paris, Gallimard, 1996 * ''Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française'', Paris, Bordas, 1997 * ''Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française'', Bordas, 1984 * ''Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de langue française'', Paris, Bordas, 1994 * ''Dictionnaire des grandes œuvres de la littérature française'', Paris, Larousse 1997 * ''Les Grandes Œuvres de la littérature française'', Paris, Bordas, 2003 * ''Les Grandes Répliques du théâtre français'', Paris, Larousse, 2000 * ''Main droite, main gauche'', Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1997 * ''Beaumarchais : le Mariage de Figaro'', Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2005

Prizes

* Prix Georges Pompidou 1985 (avec A. Rey et D. Couty) *

Prix de la langue française The Prix de la langue française is chronologically the first grand prix of the literary season in France. Established in 1986 by the city of Brive-la-Gaillarde in the department of Corrèze, this prize rewards the work of a personality of the lit ...

2005 for all his work

References

External links

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