Raymond Polin (July 7, 1910,

Briançon Briançon (, ) is the sole subprefecture of the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It is the highest city in France at an altitude of , based on the national definition as a community conta ...

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– February 8, 2001) was a French philosopher. He taught at the

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(since 1961). He was the president of the

University of Paris The University of Paris (french: link=no, Université de Paris), Metonymy, metonymically known as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, active from 1150 to 1970, with the exception between 1793 and 1806 under the French Revo ...

from 1976 to 1981.

Literary works

* '' La création des valeurs'', 1944 * '' La compréhension des valeurs'', 1945 * '' Du laid, du mal, du faux'', 1948 1910 births 2001 deaths People from Briançon École Normale Supérieure alumni French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French philosophers 20th-century French male writers Academic staff of the University of Paris {{France-philosopher-stub