Albert Pauphilet
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Albert Pauphilet (13 April 1884 – 28 June 1948) was a French university professor and medievalist.
Biography
Albert Pauphilet completed his secondary studies at the Lycée Condorcet, during which he obtained the honorary prize for French composition at the Concours Général. He obtained a baccalaureate in letters in 1902.
He entered the
Initially assigned as professor of French literature to the University of Cairo from 1908 to 1910, he was successively lecturer at the
Professor of French literature of the Middle Ages at the Faculty of Letters of Paris from 1934, he has thus edited numerous articles and books on the medieval period, such as the first volume of Strowski and Moulinier's "History of French Literature". We also owe him new editions of period texts such as the "Quest for the Holy Grail", often reissued.
Imprisoned under the
He is the father of the resistant Bernard Pauphilet.
Distinctions
Albert Pauphilet was appointed