Henri Maurice Peyre (21 February 1901 – 9 December 1988) was a French-born American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French Emeritus at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. Peyre graduated from the École Normale Superieure and the

Sorbonne Sorbonne may refer to: * Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. *the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970) *one of its components or linked institution, ...

and received his PhD from the Universite de Paris. In 1925 he started teaching at

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

, ten miles west of Philadelphia. From 1933 to 1938 he was professor of French literature at the Egyptian University in Cairo, and from 1938 to 1969 he was Sterling Professor of French at Yale University. Upon mandatory retirement at age 68 from Yale in 1969 to his retirement in 1980, he was Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. In 1930 Peyre was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1954 he received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in 1954 to do research for his next book, and in 1963, he was a member of the National Commission on the Humanities. In France he was made officer of the

Légion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

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Peyre wrote about 30 books about

classicism Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aesthet ...

, modern literature, and

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. A selection: * 1955. ''The contemporary French novel'' * 1962. ''Essays on English and American literature'' With

Leo Spitzer Leo Spitzer (; 7 February 1887 – 16 September 1960) was an Austrian Romanist and Hispanist, philologist, and an influential and prolific literary critic. He was known for his emphasis on stylistics. Along with Erich Auerbach, Spitzer is widely ...

, and A. Hatcher. * 1963. ''Literature and sincerity'' * 1967.
French Novelists of Today.
' New York: Oxford UP, * 1968. ''Jean-Paul Sartre'' * 2005. ''Henri Peyre: His Life in Letters''. With John W. Kneller and Mario Maurin eds. Articles, a selection * 1953. "Exile by

Saint-John Perse Alexis Leger (; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative ...

", Shenandoah, Lexington, vol. V, Winter 1953 * 1964.
André Malraux and the Arts
" The Baltimore Museum of Art: Baltimore, Maryland, 1964

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– Obituary, 1988 {{DEFAULTSORT:Peyre, Henri 1901 births 1988 deaths Linguists from the United States University of Paris alumni Bryn Mawr College faculty Yale University faculty Yale Sterling Professors 20th-century linguists French emigrants to the United States Presidents of the Modern Language Association

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