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

École normale supérieure in 1905, where he obtained an associate degree in 1908 and defended in 1921 a thesis on The Quest for the Holy Grail attributed to Gautier Map . He participated in 1929 to the second Davos University conferences
, along with many other French and German intellectuals.

Initially assigned as professor of French literature to the University of Cairo from 1908 to 1910, he was successively lecturer at the

Middle Ages literature at the Faculty of Letters of Lyon
(1922) and professor of French language and Middle Ages literature at the Faculty of Letters in Lyon (1923).

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

École normale supérieure
, which he directed until his death in 1948.

He is the father of the resistant Bernard Pauphilet.

Distinctions

Albert Pauphilet was appointed

Académie française
for the Narcisse-Michaut award in 1923.