Education
Lycée Thiers.
essayist historian professor teacher writer
Lycée Thiers.
Fumaroli was elected to the Académie française March 2, 1995 and became its Director. Following his appointment to a chair in Seventeenth Century Studies at the University of Paris-IV, Louisiana Sorbonne (1980), he was elected to a Chair in Rhetoric and Society in Europe (16th and 17th century) at the Collège de France. He held it from 1986 to 2002, until mandatory retirement, and is now an emeritus professor
His pioneering work remains L"Age De l"Eloquence (1980).
This massive work redrew the map of rhetorical scholarship across Europe. 2011 When the World Spoke French (Quand l"Europe parlait français) (New York: New York Review of Books).
He is acknowledged for the revival of Rhetoric as field of study of European culture, in a sharp move away from both structuralism and post-modernism.
Académie française; Lincean Academy. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. National Academy of Sciences.
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
American Philosophical Society. British Academy]
He is also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions, the sister academy devoted to high erudition.
Fumaroli was also a member of the University of Chicago"s Committee on Social Thought. He is a foreign member of the British Academy and of the American Philosophical Society.