Watriquet de Couvin was a fourteenth century French poet active between 1319 and 1329, and one of the few named authors of medieval French fabliaux. [1] [2] [3] Among his other poems, he is known for his moralistic "dits".
Watriquet de Couvin was a contemporary of the minstrels Jean de Condé and Jacques de Baisieux. His writings recommended submission to the Church, protection of the poor, and respect for women.
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.
Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau was a 19th-century French historian, journalist and administrator.
A fabliau is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility. Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the Decameron and by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales. Some 150 French fabliaux are extant, the number depending on how narrowly fabliau is defined. According to R. Howard Bloch, fabliaux are the first expression of literary realism in Europe.
René Doumic, French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the Collège Stanislas de Paris.
Joseph Bédier was a French writer and historian of medieval France.
Théophile Marion Dumersan was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the Bibliothèque royale.
Roland Mortier was a prominent Belgian scholar, philosopher and academic, known for his contributions to linguistics and literature. Mortier obtained his PhD in Philology, specialisting in 18th century literature and Franco-German reports, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1946. He was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. In 1965, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences.
Edmond Faral was an Algerian-born French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France.
Antoine Jay was a French writer, journalist, historian and politician.
Marie-Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé was a French diplomat, Orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist and literary critic.
André Vauchez FBA is a French medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome. His thesis, defended in 1978, was published in English as Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages in 1987 and has become a standard reference work.
Dominique Kalifa was a French historian, columnist and professor.
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d'Aussy was a French antiquarian and historian, who introduced the terms menhir and dolmen, both taken from the Breton language, into antiquarian terminology. He interpreted megaliths as gallic tombs.
Jean-Charles Darmon is a French literary critic born in 1961.
Events from the year 1555 in France.
Adolphe van Bever was a 19th–20th-century French bibliographer and erudite.
Charles Dédéyan was a French-Armenian Romance philologist, literature comparatist and specialist of French literature.
Guillot or Guiot of Paris was a late 13th or early 14th century French poet, author of the Le Dit des rues de Paris.
René Marill Albérès, or R. M. Albérès, was the pseudonym of René Marill, a French writer and literary critic. He published book-length studies of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, André Gide, Gérard de Nerval, Jean Giraudoux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Butor, Franz Kafka, as well as surveys of the novel in twentieth-century European literature.
Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande was a French historian. He was a lecturer at the University of the West Indies and Guyana, of which he served as president from 1972 to 1977, before later becoming the president of the Guadeloupe Historical Society.