Béatrice Didier (born 21 December 1935 in

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) is a French literary critic.

Biography

Didier was a professor of literature and a publishing series director. She earned a literary doctorate in 1965. She is also a Professor Emeritus of

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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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and

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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, 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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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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