Mario Roques (1 July 1875 – 8 March 1961) was a French scholar, professor of history of

medieval literature Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of t ...

and renowned Romance philologist. He translated and edited '' Le Roman de Renart''.

Biography

Mario Roques was born in Peru where his father was a consular agentPierre Chantraine,
Éloge funèbre de Mario Roques, membre de l'Académie
', ''Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres'', 1961, 105-1, (p. 83–88) He started studying at the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

(ENS) from 1894 while following courses at the

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as an auditor. In 1895, he joined the

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

(EPHE) where he trained in Romance philology under the guidance of

Gaston Paris Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (; 9 August 1839 – 5 March 1903) was a French literary historian, philologist, and scholar specialized in Romance studies and medieval French literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, ...

and Antoine Thomas. His teaching career began early and led him to teach at the ENS, the EPHE (where he would succeed

), the

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(where he taught the Romanian and Albanian languages and of which he was appointed director, that is to say director, 1936), the Sorbonne and the

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

. In 1910, he created the series "Les classiques français du Moyen âge" at . The following year, he succeeded Paul Meyer at the head of the journal ''

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'', which he would manage until his death.

Bibliography

*1912: '' The Boy and the Blind Man : jeu du XIIIe'', (reissue in 2005 with the addition of a long literary introduction and a file containing extracts of texts thematically related by Jean Dufournet) * 1931: ''Le Roman du comte d'Anjou de Jehan Maillart'' * 1936: ''

Aucassin and Nicolette ''Aucassin et Nicolette'' (12th or 13th century) is an anonymous medieval French fictional story. It is the unique example of a ''chantefable'', literally, a "sung story", a combination of prose and verse (similar to a ''prosimetrum''). Histor ...

'' * 1948: ''Le Roman de Renart'' * 1951: ''Le Roman de Renart'' * 1952: ''Les romans de Chrétien de Troyes : I Érec et Enide'' * 1955: ''Le Roman de Renart'' * 1956: ''Roland à Saragosse'', poème méridional du XIVe siècle * 1957: ''L'Estoire de Griseldis en rimes et par personages''. * 1958: ''Le Roman de Renart'' * 1958: ''Le Chevalier à la charrette'' * 1959: ''La Farce du pauvre Jouhan'' (in collaboration with Eugénie Droz). * 1960: ''Le Roman de Renart'' * 1960: ''

Yvain, the Knight of the Lion ''Yvain, the Knight of the Lion'' () is an Arthurian romance by French poet Chrétien de Troyes. It was written c. 1180 simultaneously with ''Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart'', and includes several references to the narrative of that poem. It ...

'' * 1963: ''Le Roman de Renart''

References

External links

Mario Roques
on data.bnf.fr
''Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Mario Roques''
on Persée
Biographie
on Persée

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roques, Mario Romance philologists French albanologists 20th-century French writers 20th-century French historians French literary historians French medievalists French philologists École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure École pratique des hautes études alumni Academic staff of the Collège de France Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies 1875 births People from Callao 1961 deaths Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America