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Bédier was born on January 28, 1863 in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion.
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Excerpt from Discours de Réception à l'Académie Française Prononcé le 3 Novembre 1921: Sur l'uvre d'Edmond Rostand 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 in?uences 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from German Atrocities: From German Evidence I intend to prove that the German armies cannot wholly escape from the reproach ot sometimes violating the law of nations, and I mean to prove my case according to French custom from absolutely trust worthy sources. I shall make use only of documents most rigorously examined, and I have taken care to criticize their text as g minutely as if in times of peace I were questioning the authority of some old chronicle or the genuineness of some old chart. And I shall jdo so perhaps from professio nal habit, perhaps impelled by an inward longing to get at the truth, in any case for the good of the case I am pleading for these pages are intended tor every. One for the casual reader, for the indifferent, and indeed for the enemy of my country. I wish that the casual reader who may by chance open this pamphlet in an idle moment should be struck by the genuineness of the documents, ifhe has eyes to see, just as their sordid character will touch his heart, if he has a heart that feels. My aim has been that these documents whose authenticity is obvious should carry an equally obvious authority. It is easy to make accusations difficult to prove them! No belligerent has ever been at a loss to bring against'his enemy a heap of evidence, true or false. But though the evidence may be collected in accordance the most solemn forms of justice by the highest magistrates, it will unfor tunately long remain useless, so long as the adversary has not had an Opportunity ofdisputing it, everyone is entitled to consider statements as lies, or at least as Open to refuta tion.'that is why, I shall abstain here, from quoting French or Belgian testimony true though I know it to be. I have preferred that the evidence whichi shall call shall be of such a nature that no living man, not even in Ger many shall attempt to refute it. German atrocities shall be proved by German documents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly law has inspired artists from Matthew Arnold to Richard Wagner. But nowhere has it been retold with greater eloquence and dignity than in Joseph Bédiers edition, which weaves several medieval sources into a seamless whole, elegantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld.
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Bédier was born on January 28, 1863 in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion.
From 1880 to 1903 he taught successively at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), at the University of Caen, and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
In 1921 he was elected to the French Academy and in 1929 became administrateur of the College de France, a post which he retained until his retirement in 1936.
In 1903 he succeeded Gaston Paris in the chair of Old French Language and Literature at the Collège de France. In 1921 he was elected to the French Academy and in 1929 became administrateur of the Collège de France, a post which he retained until his retirement in 1936. Bédier's first major work of scholarship was his doctoral thesis entitled Les Fabliaux, études de littérature populaire et d'histoire littéraire du moyen âge (1893, reprinted in 1894 and in 1924), in which he opposed the then current theories of the Eastern origin of the narrative genre known as fabliaux and showed conclusively that it was a product of 13th-century France, closely related to the social and literary climate of the time. The success of this work was immediate, and placed Bédier in the forefront of the medievalists of his generation; but it was his next book, Le Roman de Tristan et Iseult (1900), a free reconstruction of the 12th-century romance of Tristan, that earned him world-wide fame as a writer. It was a masterpiece of French prose, in which scholarship and literary genius had an equal share. Two years later Bédier published the first volume of his edition of Le Roman de Tristan par Thomas, the most important contribution ever made to the study of the early forms of medieval romance. It established beyond any possibility of doubt that all the known versions of the Tristan story stemmed ultimately from the same lost original, a twelfth-century French poem, and not, as was previously believed, from an amorphous tradition of Celtic popular tales. A similar change of perspective was achieved in Bédier's monumental Les Légendes épiques. His researches into the origins of Old French epic poems had convinced him that these were written long after the events which they described, certainly not earlier than the eleventh century, and that they could be localized along the routes of pilgrimage where they served to attract pilgrims to certain places of worship. Above all, they were products of individual poets, not of popular fancy. The culmination of Bédier's study of the epic was his critical edition of the Chanson de Roland (1922). It was produced with a translation of the poem into modern French prose which, apart from the light it throws upon the text, is a poetic achievement of a high order. That Bédier transformed everything he touched is as true of his literary studies as of his writings upon problems of textual criticism. In a series of epoch-making contributions, starting with his introduction to Le Lai de l'Ombre (1913), he advocated a method free from the elaborate techniques of reconstruction used by earlier critics; and his own courageously conservative treatment of the unique surviving manuscript of the Chanson de Roland has since become a model of conscientious critical editing in all branches of literary history. Bédier died in Le Grand Serre on August 29, 1938.
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