The Prix Saintour is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the
Institut de France
The (; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute m ...
since 1835.
It is an annual literary prize, created in by the
Académie française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
and awarded from 1893 to 1989
The
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...
and the
Academie des sciences morales et politiques still award the prix Saintour.
Laureates of the
Académie Française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
From 1893 to 1924
*
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
:
** Gaston de Raimes (1859-19..) for ''Soldats de France, actions héroïques''
**
André Saglio for ''Maisons d’hommes célèbres''
*
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
:
** Charles-Louis Livet (1828-1898) for ''Lexique comparé de la langue de Molière et des autres écrivains''
*
1895
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
* January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...
:
**
Edmond Huguet for ''Étude sur la syntaxe de Rabelais''
** Maxime Lanusse (1853-1930) for ''De l’influence du dialecte gascon sur la langue française, de la fin du XVe siècle à la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle''
** Abbé Charles Urbain (1852-1930) for ''Nicolas Coeffeteau (1574-1623)''
*
1896
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
:
**
Napoléon-Maurice Bernardin for ''Un précurseur de Racine, Tristan l’Hermite, sieur Du Solier (1601-1655)''
**
Abel Lefranc
Maurice Jules Abel Lefranc (27 July 1863 – 26 November 1952) was a historian of French literature, expert on Rabelais, and the principal advocate of the Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship.
Early life
Lefranc was born in Élincourt-Sa ...
for ''Les dernières poésies de Marguerite de Navarre''
*
1897
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
:
**
Arsène Darmesteter
Arsène Darmesteter (5 January 1846, Château-Salins, Moselle16 November 1888, Paris) was a distinguished French philologist and man of letters.
Biography
He studied under Gaston Paris at the École pratique des hautes études, and became profess ...
for ''Cours historiques de la langue française''
**
Gustave Michaut for ''Pensées de Pascal''
*
1898
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
:
**
Léon Brunschvicg
Léon Brunschvicg (; 10 November 1869 – 18 January 1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. He co-founded the ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' with Xavier Leon and Élie Halévy in 1893.
Life
He was born into a Jewish family.
From ...
for ''Blaise Pascal''
** Abbé Joseph Lebarq (1844-1897) for ''Œuvres oratoires de Bossuet''
** Maurice Souriau (1856-195.?) for ''La préface de Cromwell, de Victor Hugo''
*
1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a c ...
:
**
Louis Arnould for ''Racan (1589-1670)''
**
Armand Gasté for ''La querelle du Cid''
*
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
:
**
Ferdinand Brunot
Ferdinand-Eugène-Jean-Baptiste Brunot (6 November 1860 – 7 January 1938) was a French linguist and philologist, editor of the ground-breaking ''Histoire de la langue française des origines à 1900'' ("History of the French Language from its Or ...
for ''Histoire de la langue française, des origines à nos jours''
** Louis Clément (1858-19..) for ''Henri Estienne et son œuvre française''
*
1901
Events
January
* January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...
:
**
Joseph Bédier
Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France.
Biography
Bédier was born in Paris, France, to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. ...
for ''Le roman de Tristan et Iseut''
**
Henri Chamard
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry.
People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.''
* Henri I de Mont ...
for ''Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560)''
** Arthur and Paul Desfeuilles (1822-1907 et 1866-1943) for ''Lexique de la langue de Molière''
*
1902
Events
January
* January 1
** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's f ...
:
** Auguste Hamon (1860-1935) for ''Jean Bouchet (1476-1557)''
**
Charles Marty-Laveaux
Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux (13 April 1823, Paris – 11 July 1899, Vitry-sur-Seine) was a French literary scholar. He is best known for his ''La Pléiade Française'', a long series of editions of the poets of La Pléiade. He also edited Corneil ...
for all of his works on the 16th century
*
1903
Events January
* January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
* January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...
:
** Guillaume Hüszar (1872-1931) for ''Corneille et le théâtre espagnol''
** Elvire Samfiresco for ''Ménage : polémiste, philologue, poète''
**
Léon Séché
Léon Séché (3 April 1848 - 5 May 1914) was a French poet.
Biography
Léon Séché was born in Ancenis. He died in Nice.
Works
* ''Les griffes du lion'' (1871)
* ''Rose Epoudry'', Roman, 1881.
* ''La Chanson de la vie, poésies''. Couronné ...
for ''Œuvres complètes de Joachim du Bellay''
*
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
* ...
:
**
Antoine Albalat
Antoine Albalat (1856-1935) was a French people, French writer and literary critic.
Works
Fiction
* (1877). ''Nella, Simple Histoire en Vers''. Brignoles: Impr. de A. Vian.
* (1882). ''Inassouvie, Roman Intime''. Paris: Paul Ollendorff.
* (1883) ...
for ''Le travail du style enseigné par les corrections manuscrites des grands écrivains''
** Henri Chardon (1834-1906) for ''Scarron inconnu. Les personnages du roman comique''
**
Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont (4 April 1858 – 27 September 1915) was a French symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling ''Rémy'' de Go ...
for ''La culture des idées'', ''Le problème du style'' and ''Esthétique de la langue française''
** Georges Doncieux (1856-1903) for ''Le romancero populaire de la France''
*
1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...
:
**
Henri Chamard
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry.
People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.''
* Henri I de Mont ...
for ''Joachim du Bellay. La Défense et illustration de la langue française''
** Ferdinand Gohin (1867-1944) for ''Les transformations de la langue française au XVIIIe siècle (1740-1789)''
** Paul Laumonier (1867-1949) for ''Œuvres poétiques de Jacques Péletier du Mans''
** Jacques Trénel (1858-....) for ''L’Ancien Testament et la langue française du moyen-âge. L’élément biblique dans l’œuvre d’Agrippa d’Aubigné''
*
1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
:
**
Joseph Anglade
Joseph Anglade (1868–1930) was a French philologist. He specialized in Romance languages, particularly Occitan, and studied the lyrics of the troubadours. He was instrumental in formalizing the term ''Occitan'' for the language of Provence.
He ...
for ''Le troubadour Guiraut Riquier, étude de la décadence de l’ancienne poésie provençale''
**
Félix Piquet for ''L’originalité de Gottfried de Strasbourg dans son poème de Tristan et Isolde''
*
1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...
:
**
Louis Lautrey for ''Journal de voyage de Montaigne''
** Louis Mellerio (1859-19..) for ''Lexique de Ronsard''
**
Fortunat Strowski for ''Édition des Essais de Michel de Montaigne''
*
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
:
** Edmond Girard (1860-1928) for ''les Œuvres de Tristan l’Hermite''
**
Edmond Huguet for ''Petit glossaire des classiques français du XVIIe siècle''
** Abbé J.-A. Quillacq for ''La langue et la syntaxe de Bossuet''
** Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie (1880-1954) for ''Recherches sur la syntaxe de la conjonction "que" dans l’ancien français''
*
1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Januar ...
:
** René Onillon (1854-19..) and Anatole-Joseph Verrier (1841-1920) for ''Glossaire étymologique et historique des patois et des parlers de l’Anjou''
**
Théodore Rosset for ''Entretien, doutes, critique et remarques du Père Bouhours sur la langue française (1671-1692)''
*
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
:
**
Bulletin du parler français au Canada
** Vladimir Chichmarev (1874-1957) for ''Guillaume de Machaut. Poésies lyriques''
**
Frédéric Lachèvre Frédéric Lachèvre (1855, Paris – 1943) was a 20th-century French bibliographer, erudit and literary critic, specialist of libertinage in the XVIIth.
Biography
A Parisian of old Norman stock, Frédéric Lachèvre was a bibliophile who was br ...
for ''Le libertinage devant le Parlement de Paris. Le procès du poète Théophile de Viau (11 juillet 1623-1er septembre 1625)''
** Hugues Vaganay (1870-1936) for ''Les amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomois, commentées par Marc-Antoine de Muret''
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
:
** Gustave Boissière (1850-1927) for ''Remarques sur les poésies de Malherbe, de Urbain Chevreau''
** Ferdinand Gohin (1867-1944) for ''Œuvres poétiques, de Antoine Héroët''
** Abbé Eugène Griselle (1861-1923) for ''Éditions de Bossuet et Fénelon. Leur correspondance. Richelieu et Louis XIII. Lettres inédites''
** Henri-Joseph Molinier for ''Essai biographique et littéraire sur Octavien de Saint-Gelays, évêque d’Angoulême (1468-1502) et Mellin de Saint-Gelays (1490-1558)''
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
:
** Paul Berret (1861-1943) for ''Le moyen-âge dans la légende des siècles et les sources de Victor Hugo''
** Albert Chérel (1880-1962) for ''Explications des maximes des Saints sur la vie intérieure, de Fénelon''
**
Philippe Martinon for ''Les Strophes''
**
Charles Oulmont
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
for ''Pierre Gringore''
**
Théodore Rosset for ''Les origines de la prononciation moderne étudiées au XVIIe siècle''
**
Louis Thuasne for ''Villon et Rabelais''
*
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
:
** Octave Carion for ''Méthode nouvelle pour l’étude des homonymes de la langue française''
**
Léon Clédat for ''Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française''
** Paul Laumonier (1867-1949) for ''La vie de Pierre de Ronsard, de Claude Binet (1586)''
**
Lazare Sainéan for ''Les sources de l’argot ancien''
*
1914
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
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**
Antoine Albalat
Antoine Albalat (1856-1935) was a French people, French writer and literary critic.
Works
Fiction
* (1877). ''Nella, Simple Histoire en Vers''. Brignoles: Impr. de A. Vian.
* (1882). ''Inassouvie, Roman Intime''. Paris: Paul Ollendorff.
* (1883) ...
for ''Comment il faut lire les auteurs classiques français''
**
François Gébelin for ''Correspondance de Montesquieu''
**
Maurice Grammont
Maurice Grammont (15 April 1866, in Damprichard – 17 October 1946, in Montpellier) was a French linguist.
He studied linguistics in Paris as a student of Michel Bréal, Arsène Darmesteter, Jules Gilliéron, Gaston Paris and Ferdinand de Sa ...
for ''Le vers français, ses moyens d’expression, son harmonie''
** G. O. d'Harvé for ''Parlons bien !''
** André Morize (1883-1957) for ''Correspondance de Montesquieu''
** Hans Sternischa for ''Deux grammairiens de la fin du XVIIIe siècle (L. Aug. Alemand et Andry de Bois-Regard)''
*
1915
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
*January 1 ...
:
** Maxime David (1885-1914)
** Georges Feuilloy (1883-1915)
** René Sturel (1885-1914)
** Léon Vouaux (1870-1914)
*
1917
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
:
**
Kristoffer Nyrop for ''Grammaire historique de la langue française''
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
:
**
Émile Magne Émile Magne (29 July 1877 – 28 March 1953) was a French writer, critic, historian of literature and art.
Biography
Born in Dax, Émile Magne attended the lycée of Bordeaux, then was a student at the Sorbonne. In 1898 he published a first stu ...
for ''Lettres inédites de Mme Louise de Gonzague sur la cour de Louis XIV''
**
Adolphe van Bever
Adolphe van Bever (25 December 1871, 12th arrondissement of Paris – 7 January 1927, Paris) was a 19th–20th-century French bibliographer and erudite.
Biography
Born in a poor family, he nevertheless one day discovered a passion for science ...
for ''Les poètes du terroir du XVe au XXe siècle''
** Divna Veković (1886-1944) for ''Dictionnaire français-serbe et serbe-français''
*
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...
:
** Lucien Foulet (1873-1958) for ''Le roman de Renard''
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
:
** Paul Laumonier (1867-1949) for ''Édition des Œuvres de Ronsard''
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil.
** The Spanish lin ...
:
** Henri Bauche (1880-1947) for ''Le langage populaire''
** Paul Berret (1861-1943) for ''Victor Hugo. La légende des siècles''
** Édouard Bonnaffé for ''Dictionnaire étymologique et historique des anglicismes''
**
Pierre Villey for ''Les Essais de Michel Montaigne. Les Sources des Essais''
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
:
** Pierre Adam for ''La langue du duc de Saint-Simon''
**
Joseph Anglade
Joseph Anglade (1868–1930) was a French philologist. He specialized in Romance languages, particularly Occitan, and studied the lyrics of the troubadours. He was instrumental in formalizing the term ''Occitan'' for the language of Provence.
He ...
for ''Histoire sommaire de la littérature méridionale au moyen âge (des origines à la fin du XVe siècle)''
**
Frédéric Lachèvre Frédéric Lachèvre (1855, Paris – 1943) was a 20th-century French bibliographer, erudit and literary critic, specialist of libertinage in the XVIIth.
Biography
A Parisian of old Norman stock, Frédéric Lachèvre was a bibliophile who was br ...
for ''Les Å“uvres libertines de Cyrano de Bergerac''
*
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
:
**
Sœurs de la Visitation for ''Œuvres de Saint-François de Sales''
**
Joseph Vianey for ''Victor Hugo : Les Contemplations''
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
:
** Gustave Rudler (1872-1957) for ''Les techniques de la critique et de l’histoire littéraires en littérature française moderne''
**
Louis Thuasne for ''François Villon. Œuvres''
From 1925 to 1957
*
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
:
** Ferdinand Gohin (1867-1944) for ''Le compte du rossignol, de A. Gilles Corrozet. Cléopâtre, captive, de Étienne Jodelle''
** Adrien Langlois for ''Le Style. La Chose et la Matière du XVIIe au XXe siècle''
** Société des textes français modernes
** Hugues Vaganay (1870-1936) for ''Publication des Œuvres complètes de Ronsard, textes de 1578''
*
1926
Events January
* January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.
* January 8
**Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
:
** Abbé Joseph Coppin (1885-1978) for ''Montaigne, traducteur de Raymond Sebon''
** Paul Festugière (1869-1950) for les Œuvres de J.-Fr. Sarasin
**
Pierre Martino for ''Stendhal-Racine et Shakespeare''
**
Daniel Mornet for ''Édition de la Nouvelle Héloïse, de Jean-Jacques Rousseau''
*
1927
Events January
* January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
* January 7
* ...
:
**
Joseph Calmette for ''Philippe de Commynes. Mémoires''
** Georges Durville (1853-1943) for ''Commynes. Mémoires''
** Gabriel Germinet (1882-1969) for ''Théâtre radiophonique''
** C.-S. Lefèvre for ''La composition littéraire''
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...
:
**
Charles Beaulieux for ''Histoire de l’orthographe française (2 vol.)''
*
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
:
**
J.-Wladimir Bienstock and
Curnonsky
Maurice Edmond Sailland (October 12, 1872, Angers, France – July 22, 1956, Paris), better known by his pen-name Curnonsky (nicknamed 'Cur'), and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was one of the most celebrated writers on gastronomy in Franc ...
for ''Le musée des erreurs ou le Français tel qu'on l'écrit''
** Roger Crétin alias
Roger Vercel for ''Lexique comparé des métaphores dans le théâtre de Corneille et Racine''
** Gaston Guillaumie (1883-1960) for ''J.-L. Guez de Balzac et la prose française''
** Mgr René Moissenet (1850-1939) for ''La prononciation du latin''
*
1930
Events
January
* January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...
:
**
Edmond Faral
Edmond Faral (18 March 1882 – 8 February 1958) was an Algerian-born French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France.
He wrote his dissertation on the jongleurs, and E. R. Curtius states that he was ...
for ''La légende arthurienne''
*
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
:
**
Louis Arnould for ''Poésies de Racan''
**
André Boulanger
André Boulanger (26 July 1886 – 9 September 1958) was a French professor of literature and Latin scholar who shared his activity between archaeology and the teaching profession.
He was a professor of Latin language and literature at Fribourg, ...
for ''L’art poétique de Jacques Peletier du Mans''
** Abbé Joseph Coppin (1885-1978) for ''Les vers de la mort, d’Hélimant moine de Froidmond''
**
Albert Dauzat
Albert Dauzat (; 4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in toponymy and onomastics.
Dauzat, a student of Jules Gilliéron, was a director of studies at the École des hautes études.
Works
* ''L'argot des poilus; di ...
for ''Histoire de la langue française''
** A. Le Dû for ''Le rythme dans la prose de Victor Hugo''
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
:
** Louis-Alexandre Bergounioux for ''Les œuvres poétiques d'Hugues Salel''
** Chanoine Henri Cuvillier for ''La langue française expliquée''
** Maurice Parturier (1888-1980) for l'Édition des Lettres de Mérimée
*
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
:
**
Oscar Bloch for ''Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française''
*
1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
:
**
Armand Garnier for ''Les tragiques de d'Aubigné''
**
Ferdinand Gohin (1867-1944) for ''Jean de La Fontaine''
**
Jean Plattard for ''les tragiques de d'Aubigné''
*
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
:
**
Georges Mongrédien for ''Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux''
*
1936
Events
January–February
* January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
:
**
René Johannet for ''Édition de Joseph de Maistre''
**
Henri Martineau for ''Édition de Stendhal''
** Jeanne Streicher (18..?-1963) for l'Édition des ''Remarques sur la langue française, de Vaugelas''
*
1938
Events
January
* January 1
** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
:
**
Louis Arnould for ''Édition des Bergeries, de Racan''
** Paul Van Tieghem (1871-1948) for ''Répertoire des littératures modernes''
*
1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
** Third Reich
*** Jews are forbidden to ...
:
**
Gustave Cohen
Gustave Cohen (24 December 1879 – 10 June 1958) was a French medievalist.
Cohen was born and grew up in Brussels. He fought for the French army in World War I. He became professor of medieval literature at the Sorbonne, encouraging his student ...
for ''Œuvres complètes de Ronsard''
** Ferdinand Gohin (1867-1944) for ''Jean de La Fontaine''
**
Jacques Pannier
for ''Les Å“uvres de Calvin''
*
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*January ...
:
** Marcel Cressot (1896-1961) for ''La Phrase et le Vocabulaire dans Huysmans''
**
Albert-Marie Schmidt
Albert-Marie Schmidt (10 October 1901 – 8 February 1966) was a French linguist and one of the founding members of the Oulipo
Oulipo (, short for french: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: ''"workshop of potential literat ...
for ''La Poésie scientifique en France''
*
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
:
** Raoul Mortier (1881-1951) for ''La Chanson de Roland, version d'Oxford''
*
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
:
** Gaston Guillaumie (1883-1960) for ''Jasmin'', ''Le Théâtre gascon'' and ''Florilège des poètes gascons''
**
Émile Martin for ''Un patois lorrain''
**
Henri Martineau for ''Souvenirs d'égotisme''
** Raoul Mortier (1881-1951) for ''La Chanson de Roland, version de Venise IV''
**
Henry Potez
Henry Potez (Méaulte, 30 September 1891 – Paris, 9 November 1981) was a French aircraft industrialist.
He studied in the French Aeronautics School '' Supaéro''. With Marcel Dassault, he was the inventor of the Potez-Bloch propeller which, aft ...
for ''Lettres galantes de Denys Lambin''
**
François Préchac (1881-1977) for ''Lettres galantes de Denys Lambin''
*
1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 – ...
:
** Hélène Derréal (1903-1989) for ''La langue de Saint Pierre Fourier'' and ''Le style de Saint Pierre Fourier''
**
Raoul Mortier (1881-1951) for ''Édition de la Chanson de Roland (Tome IV, texte de Paris)''
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
:
** Armand Caraccio (1895-1969) for ''Promenades dans Rome, de Stendhal''
**
Michel François
Joseph-Michel François was a colonel in the Haitian army. As Haiti Chief of National Police he participated in the 1991 Haitian coup d'état, which overthrew Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Former Haitian President candidate ...
for ''L'heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre''
** Jules Mouquet (1878-1949) for ''Samain, poèmes à la grande amie''
**
Maximilien Vox
Maximilien Vox (real name: Samuel William Théodore Monod) was a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography.
He was born on 16 December 1894 in Condé-sur-N ...
for ''Correspondance de Napoléon''
*
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
:
**
Arnold van Gennep
Arnold van Gennep, in full Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957) was a Dutch–German- French ethnographer and folklorist.
Biography
He was born in Ludwigsburg, in the Kingdom of Württemberg (since 1871, part of the Ger ...
for ''Manuel du folklore français''
*
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
:
** René Bailly (1910-1987) for ''Dictionnaire des Synonymes''
*
1948
Events January
* January 1
** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect.
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
:
** Marcel Cressot (1896-1961) for ''Le style et ses techniques''
** Léon Delhoume (1887-1965) for ''Principes de médecine expérimentale, de Claude Bernard''
** Jean Marchand for ''Le livre de raison, de Montaigne''
*
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – Luis ...
:
** Robert Baschet for ''Publication du Journal de Delécluse''
** Yves Le Hir (1919-2005) for ''Lamennais écrivain''
*
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
:
**
Antoine Bibesco
Prince Antoine Bibesco ( ro, PrinÈ›ul Anton Bibescu; July 19, 1878 – September 2, 1951) was a Romanian people, Romanian aristocrat, lawyer, diplomat, and writer.
Biography
His father was Prince Alexandre Bibesco, the last surviving son of ...
for ''Lettres de Proust à Bibesco''
**
Paul Robert for ''Dictionnaire. Les mots et les associations d'idées''
*
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
:
** Patrice Buet (1889-1953) for ''Poèmes français de poètes étrangers''
**
Joseph Canteloube
Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (; 21 October 18794 November 1957) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region, ''Chants d'Auvergne''.
Biography
Canteloube ...
for ''Anthologie des chants populaires français''
** André Delattre for ''Voltaire. Correspondance avec les Tronchin''
*
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
:
** Georges Roth (1887-1975) for ''Histoire de Mme de Montbrillant, version intégrale des pseudo-mémoires de Mme d’Épinay''
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
:
** Dr Fernand Lotte for ''Dictionnaire biographique des personnages fictifs de la Comédie humaine''
** Nada Tomiche (1923-2019) for ''Napoléon écrivain''
*
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
:
** André Desguine (1902-1981) for ''Étude des Bacchanales par Ronsard''
**
Charles Guérin
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ...
for ''Les Odes de Pierre de Ronsard''
*
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
:
** Jean Babin (1905-1978) for ''Les parlers de l’Argonne''
**
Armand Ziwès
Armand refer to:
People
* Armand (name), list of people with this name
*Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer
*Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer
*Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player
*Armand, ...
for ''Le jargon de M. François Villon''
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
:
** Marcel Galliot (1899-1989) for ''Essai sur la Langue de la Réclame''
**
Louis de Saint-Pierre for ''Les Mémoires du maréchal Soult''
*
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
:
** Adolphe Victor Thomas for ''Dictionnaire des difficultés de la langue française''
From 1958 to 1989
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
:
**
Yolande Arsène-Henry for ''Les plus beaux textes sur le Saint-Esprit''
*
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
:
**
René-Jean Hesbert for ''Les Conférences ascétiques et Perfection du chef, de Dom Martin et Science et Sainteté, de Dom Jean Mabillon''
** Élisabeth Poulain and Gaston Poulain (1903-1973) for the regional Anthologies of ''Haut-Languedoc et Armagnac'' and of ''Bas-Languedoc et Roussillon''
** Jeanne Streicher (18..?-1963) for ''Les œuvres poétiques, de Théophile de Viau''
*
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
:
**
Jean Labbé for ''Correspondance de Francis Jammes''
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
:
** Joseph Barbier (1915-1986) for ''Le vocabulaire et le style de Péguy''
** Louis Châtelain and Georges Galichet (1904-1992) for ''Grammaire française expliquée''
*
1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
:
**
Helmut Hatzfeld et Yves Le Hir (1919-2005) for ''Essai de bibliographie critique de stylistique française et romane''
**
Henri Morier for ''Dictionnaire de poétique et de rhétorique''
*
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
:
** Jacqueline Pinchon (1921-2020) and
Robert-Léon Wagner for ''Grammaire du Français classique et moderne''
*
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
:
**
Pierre Jourda for ''Édition des Œuvres de Rabelais''
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
:
** Albert-Jean Guibert for ''Bibliographie des œuvres de Molière publiées au XVIIe siècle''
** Madeleine Horn-Monval for ''Répertoire bibliographique des Traductions et Adaptations françaises du Théâtre étranger''
** Georges Palassie (Société des Amis de Montaigne) for ''Mémorial du 1e Congrès International des Études montaignistes''
* 1966 in literature, 1966 :
** Émile-Jules-François Arnould for ''La genèse du Barbier de Séville''
* 1967 in literature, 1967 :
** Albert Doppagne for ''Trois aspects du français contemporain''
** Henri Perrochon for ''De Rousseau à Ramuz''
** Samuel Silvestre de Sacy for ''Édition des Œuvres de Descartes''
* 1968 in literature, 1968 :
** André Porquet for ''L’orthographe française''
* 1969 in literature, 1969 :
** Maurice Delamain for ''Plaidoyer pour les mots''
** Maurice Joseph-Gabriel for ''La Dissertation pédagogique''
* 1970 in literature, 1970 :
** Nina Catach for ''L’orthographe française à l’époque de la Renaissance''
** Fernand Criqui (1921-2006) for ''Mots et Concepts - Lexique permanent''
* 1971 in literature, 1971 :
** Robert Beauvais for ''L’Hexagonal tel qu’on le parle''
** Fernand Duplouy and René Galichet for ''Méthode active d’initiation à la composition française''
** Robert Le Bidois for ''Les mots trompeurs''
* 1973 in literature, 1973 :
** Roger Guichemerre (1924-2018) for ''La comédie avant Molière''
** Mme Claude Labarraque Reyssac for ''En marge de Molière. La jeunesse de Philaminte''
** Georges Martin (author), Georges Martin for ''Nîmes dans la littérature''
** Guy Turbet-Delof (1922-2008) for ''L’Afrique barbaresque dans la littérature aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles''
* 1975 in literature, 1975 :
** Hélène Bourgeois-Gielen, Albert Doppagne and Joseph Hanse for ''Nouvelle chasse aux Belgicismes''
* 1976 in literature, 1976 :
** Henri Bénac and Jean-Yves Dournon for ''Dictionnaire d’orthographe et des difficultés du français''
* 1977 in literature, 1977 :
** Henri Bénac and Édouard Bled for ''Guide pratique d’orthographe''
* 1978 in literature, 1978 :
** Claude Désirat, Émile Genouvrier and Tristan Hordé (1932-....) for ''Nouveau Dictionnaire des Synonymes''
* 1979 in literature, 1979 :
** Jean-Pol Caput (1937-2001) for ''L’Académie française et la pureté de la langue française entre 1859 et 1935 (L’orthographe et la prononciation)''
** Adelin Moulis for ''Le dictionnaire languedocien-français''
** René Nelli for ''Mais enfin qu’est-ce que l’Occitanie ?''
** Jean H. Zemb for ''Comparaison de Deux Systèmes''
* 1980 in literature, 1980 :
** Maurice Maloux for ''Dictionnaire des proverbes, sentences et maximes''
** André Porquet (1916-....) for ''L’orthographe sans peine''
* 1983 in literature, 1983 :
** Henri Bertaud du Chazaud for ''Dictionnaire des synonymes''
** Jean-Yves Dournon for ''Le grand dictionnaire des citations françaises''
* 1984 in literature, 1984 :
** Louis-Marie Morfaux (19..-1998) for ''Vocabulaire de la philosophie et des sciences humaines''
* 1985 in literature, 1985 :
** Roger Morvan for ''Le petit Retz-Morvan''
** Henri de Vaulchier for ''Charles Nodier et la lexicographie française 1808-1844''
* 1986 in literature, 1986 :
** Georges Matoré for ''Le vocabulaire et la société médiévale''
* 1987 in literature, 1987 :
** Jean-Yves Dournon for ''Le dictionnaire des proverbes et dictons de France''
* 1988 in literature, 1988 :
** Gérard Cornu (professor), Gérard Cornu for ''Vocabulaire juridique''
* 1989 in literature, 1989 :
** Loïc Depecker for ''Les Mots de la francophonie''
Laureates from the
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...
From 1901 to 1950
* 1901:
** Georges Louis Rodier for his translation of ''Traité de l'âme'', d'Aristote.
** Philippe-Ernest Legrand for his study on Theocritus.
** Alcide Macé (1862-19..) for his essay on Suetonius.
* 1902:
** Charles Diehl for ''Justinien et la civilisation byzantine au vie siècle''.
** Fernand de Mély for ''Les Reliques de Constantinople au XIIIe siècle'' et l'ensemble de ses travaux archéologiques.
* 1903:
** Charles Fossey for ''La Magie assyrienne''.
** Joanny Grosset for the translation of ''Bharatya-Natya-Castram''.
** Alexandre Moret for ''Le rituel du culte divin journalier en Égypte''.
** Paul Toscanne (1867-1919) for ''Les Cylindres de Gudéa''.
----
Laureates from the Academie des sciences morales et politiques
* 1978 : Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord
* 2000 : Michel Espagne for ''Les transferts culturels franco-allemands'', Paris (PUF), 2000. (Ethics et sociology)
* 2002 : Raoul Béteille for ''De l’injustice'', Paris (François-Xavier de Guibert), 2001. (Legislation, public law and jurisprudence)
* 2004 : Jean-Pierre Boisivon for all of his work. (Political Economy, statistics et finances)
* 2006 : Michèle Cointet for ''De Gaulle et Giraud. L’affrontement'', Paris (Perrin), 2006. (History et Geography)
* 2008 : Jean Garrigues for the direction of ''Histoire du Parlement de 1789 à nos jours et Grands discours parlementaires (de la Révolution à la Ve République)'', Paris (Armand Colin), 6 volumes, 2004-2008. (General)
* 2010 : Marie Pérouse for ''L’invention des Pensées de Pascal. Les éditions de Port-Royal (1670-1678)'', Paris (Honoré Champion), 2009. (Philosophy)
* 2012 : Élisabeth Dufourcq for ''L’invention de la loi naturelle'', Paris, Bayard, 2012. (Ethics and sociology)
* 2014 : Christophe Bigot for his work ''Pratique du droit de la presse. Presse écrite – Audiovisuel – Internet'', Paris (Victoires Éditions), 2013. (Legislation, public law and jurisprudence)
* 2016 : Bertrand Martinot and Franck Morel for their work ''Un autre droit du travail est possible'', Paris, (Fayard), 2016. (Political Economy, statistics et finances)
References
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