Raymond Lebègue (16 August 1895 – 21 November 1984) was a 20th-century French

literary historian The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pie ...

. The son of

palaeographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of historical writing systems. It encompasses the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dati ...

Henri Lebègue Henri Lebègue (27 February 1856 – 19 October 1938) was a French palaeographer, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études. The French historian Ernest Lebègue (1862–1943), was his brother. Henri Lebègue was also th ...

, he was elected a member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

in 1955. He cofounded the ''Revue d'histoire du théâtre'' with his friend

Louis Jouvet Jules Eugène Louis Jouvet (; 24 December 1887 – 16 August 1951) was a French actor, theatre director and filmmaker. Early life Jouvet was born in Crozon. He had a Stuttering, stutter as a young man and originally trained as a pharmac ...

Selected publications

*1925: ''Stendhal, Armance ou quelques scènes d'un salon de Paris en 1827'', Geneva/Paris 1986 (preface by

André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his begi ...

) *1944: ''La Tragédie française de la Renaissance'', Brüssel *1951: ''La Poésie française de 1560 à 1630. De Ronsard à Malherbe. Malherbe et son temps'', 2 volumes, Paris 1945–1947 *1949: Robert Garnier, Œuvres complètes *1966: ''Ronsard. L'homme et l'œuvre'' *1968: ''Malherbe, Oeuvres poétiques'', with René Fromilhague) *1972: ''Le théâtre comique en France de "Pathelin'' à "Mélite" *1976: Peiresc, Lettres à Malherbe 1606–1628 *1977–1978: ''Études sur le théâtre français'', 2 volumes *1979: ''Aspects de Chateaubriand. Vie, voyage en Amérique, œuvres''

External links

Biography
on the site of the

comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) (''Committee for Historic and Scientific Works'') is a French research institution created by the Minister of Public Education François Guizot on 18 July 1834 for the purpose of 'leading ...

''Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Raymond Lebègue''
on Persée
''La poésie baroque en France pendant les guerres de religion''

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on the site of the Académie Française * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lebegue, Raymond Romance philologists French philologists Academic staff of the University of Paris French literary historians 20th-century French historians Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1895 births Writers from Paris 1984 deaths 20th-century French philologists