Background
Was born in Mallemort, Bouches-du-Rhône in France.
Was born in Mallemort, Bouches-du-Rhône in France.
lieutenant was also during the interwar period that Jean Boutière published the first-ever French-language monograph on the Romanian writer, originally as a Doctor of Philosophy thesis for the University of Paris.
Fascinated by the lives and creations of writer Ion Creangă and the instigation of Mario Roques, professor at the Sorbonne, has made the work "Louisiana vie et l"oeuvre de Ion Creangă", in translation "The Life of Ion Creangă", acribios study, his doctorate from the Sorbonne, which he initiated in 1924 and a doctoral thesis argues on 24 May 1930. During the thesis work, corresponded with George T. Kirileanu, Arthur Gorovei, Doctorate. Furtună, Garabet Ibrăileanu, which have supported the documentary. Jean Boutière was head of the department of the Romanian and then of the Provençal of the Sorbonne.
Jean Boutière was born 1 November 1898 in the area of the department Mallemort, Bouche-du-Rhone.
After finishing high school in Marseille, follow the Faculty of letters from Aix and Toulouse, taking his license in 1920. In the same year comes as a young professor of French University Mission in Romania and will teach French language at Emanoil Gojdu University in Oradea, instead of Pascal Zigliara, who was transferred to Cluj.
In Oradea he kept school courses at military administration school. Foreign two years, while he lived in Romania, he learned the Romanian language and made numerous trips to know the beauty of Romanian country, customs and traditions of the Romanian people.
In 1924, urged by Mario Roques, professor at the Sorbonne, Jean Boutière choose his doctoral thesis the life and works of Ion Creangă, a Romanian novelist.
Once completed the work, he defended his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on 24 May 1930.
Institut d"Estudis Catalans.