Roger Duchêne (3 February 1930 – 25 April 2006) was a French biographer specializing in the letters of
Madame de Sévigné Madame may refer to:
* Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French
* Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel
* ''Madame'' ...
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Duchêne became a member of l'
Académie de Marseille
The Académie de Marseille, officially the Académie des sciences, lettres et arts de Marseille, is a French learned society based in Marseille. It was founded in 1726 and includes those in the city involved in the arts, letters, and sciences.
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in 1972, and received the Grand Prize of l'Académie du Vaucluse en 1980, as well as the Prix du Roi René, le Grand Prix littéraire de Provence in 1983, and received the George Castex l'
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
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Prize and the Grand Prize for Literary Biography from the
Académie Française, of which he had already been named laureate for his works published in 1979, 1983 et 1991.
He lived in
Marseille
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, until his death in 2006, aged 75.
Duchêne's works include:
* ''Madame de Sévigné, ou, la chance d'être femme''
* ''Chère Madame de Sévigné...'', coll. "
Découvertes Gallimard" (nº 253)
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* ''Madame de Sévigné et la lettre d'amour''
* ''Naissances d'un écrivain: Madame de Sévigné''
* ''L'Impossible Marcel Proust''
* ''La Fontaine''
* ''Molière''
* ''Ninon de Lenclos, ou, La manière jolie de faire l'amour''
* ''Madame de La Fayette''
* ''Marseille''
* ''Etre femme au temps de Louis XIV''
* ''Les précieuses, ou, Comment l'esprit vint aux femmes''
* ''Mon Dix-septième siècle: de Mme de Sévigné à Marcel Proust''
External links
Web17 – In Memoriam Roger Duchêne
1930 births
2006 deaths
French biographers
French literary critics
20th-century French writers
20th-century biographers
20th-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers
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