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Discours de Réception à l'Académie Française Prononcé le 3 Novembre 1921: Sur l'Œuvre d'Edmond Rostand (Classic Reprint)

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Porte le fatras des vaines anecdotes? Qu'est - ce que tout cela qui n'est pas de l'âme? Pourtant, c'est déjà toucher aux choses de l'âme que d'indiquer fugitivement de quelles pures influences familiales son enfance et son adolescence furent enveloppées. Lui même nous v invite en quelques pièces, lim pides et tendres, de ses Musardises. Tous les ans, fuyant Marseille aux jours de l'été, il s'en allait avec les siens vers les Pyrénées, aux abords de Luchon. Là, sous un ciel clé ment, aux pays des eaux vives, il prit, nous dit - il, son goût des choses transparentes aussi, sa voix gardera toujours des intona tions de source et, jusqu'au terme de sa carrière, parce que son éducation ful à la fois très ingénue et très raffinée, chacune de ses inspirations associera à l'extrême raffinement une extrême ingénuité. Et puisqu'il a su décrire, à sa manière subtile et pudique, rien que par le rappel des odeurs salubres qui l'imprégnaient, la maison où il a grandi.

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Published February 25, 2018

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Joseph Bédier

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Bédier was born in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. He was a professor of medieval French literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland (1889–1891) and the Collège de France, Paris (c. 1893).

Modern theories of the fabliaux and the chansons de geste are based on two of Bédier's studies.

Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900), La chanson de Roland (1921), and Les fabliaux (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death.

His Tristan et Iseut was translated into Cornish by A. S. D. Smith, into English by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, and into German by Rudolf G. Binding.

Bédier was also joint editor of the two-volume Littérature française, one of the most valuable modern general histories of French literature. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1929.

Bédier died in Le Grand-Serre, France

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