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Bédier, Joseph, 1864-1938We have 2 books for this author.Joseph Bédier (b. January 1, 1864, Paris – d. August 29, 1938, Le Grand-Serre) was an important 20th century French writer and scholar. Background/educationJoseph Bédier was a son of lawyer Adolphe Bédier. Of Breton origin, Bédier spent his childhood in Réunion. From 1889, he was a teacher of medieval French literature at various universities (1889-1891 Freiburg/Switzerland, c. 1903 Collège de France in Paris). AccomplishmentsModern theories of the fabliaux and the chansons de geste are based on two of Bédier's studies. Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900), La chanson de Roland (1921), and Les fabliaux (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death. His Tristan et Iseut was translated into Cornish by A. S. D. Smith and into English by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld. Bédier was also joint editor of the two-volume Littérature Française, one of the most valuable modern general histories of French literature. Works of Joseph Bédier
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