Philippe Marçais (16 March 1910 – 31 May 1984) was a French
Arabist and politician. A director of the from 1938 to 1945, he was dean of the
Faculté des Lettres d'Alger and député of
French Algeria from 1958 to 1962. The Arabist
William Marçais William Ambroise Marçais (6 November 1872, Rennes – 1 October 1956, Paris), was a French Orientalist, particularly noted as an expert on the Maghrebi Arabic dialects.
Biography
William Marçais was born in Rennes in 1872. After finishing the ...
was his father.
Works
*1952
''Le parler arabe de Djidjelli (Nord constantinois, Algérie)'' Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Publications de l'Institut d'Études Orientales d'Alger.
*1954: ''Textes arabes de Djidjelli'', text, transcription and translation, Paris,
Presses Universitaires de France.
*1977: ''Esquisse grammaticale de l'arabe maghrébin'', Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient.
*1977: ''Textes d'arabe maghrébin'', with MS.S Hamrouni, Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient.
*2001: ''Textes arabes du Fezzân'', text and translation, Paris, Droz.
External links
Philippe Marçaison
data.bnf.fr
Philippe Marçais (1910 – 1984)on the site of the University of Liège
Philippe Marçaison the site of the Assemblée Nationale
on Biblio Monde
Extrait des ''Textes arabes de Djidjelli'' de G Marçais
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1910 births
1984 deaths
People from Algiers
People of French Algeria
Pieds-Noirs
Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French Arabists
Jean-Marie Le Pen
French orientalists
French military personnel of World War II
Members of the Organisation armée secrète
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Recipients of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques