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Bernard Jullien (2 February 1798 – 15 October 1881) was a French teacher, novelist and linguist.
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Bernard Jullien (2 February 1798 – 15 October 1881) was a French teacher, novelist and linguist.
Jullien was born in Paris, and went to school in Versailles. After graduating, he began his teaching career at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, going on to teach in Dieppe (1831-1835) and later Paris. In 1836 he graduated from the Sorbonne under Joseph Victor Leclerc with a thesis on Aristotle's Physics (published in 1854 as his book De quelques points des sciences dans l'antiquité) and Sur l'étude et l'enseignement de la grammaire (Paris 1836). He later also earned a degree in natural sciences.
Jullien was most notable as an author of grammatical and literary textbooks for schools for the publisher Louis Hachette. As associates of that publishing house he and Édouard Sommer also helped Émile Littré create his dictionary. From 1840 Jullien edited the journal L'Enseignement. Bulletin d'éducation and from 1843 to 1850 he was the editor of Revue de l'instruction publique. From 1854 he was also the chief editor of the monthly Le Correspondant.
Nostalgic for the First French Empire and an anti-Romantic thinker, he preferred 18th century Age of Enlightenment rationalism and so could not gain a foothold on the university career ladder before the rise of the French Second Empire - as seen in the preface to his 1844 Histoire, he felt himself unfairly treated. His thinking and wide reading fully developed under Napoleon III in six extensive theses on grammar, literature, history, and philosophy and was more devoted to clarity than originality.
His son, Adolphe Jullien, was a French musicologist and journalist.
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