Bernard Cottret

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Bernard Cottret
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Known forHistorian and literary scholar
Websitehttp://bernardcottret.monsite-orange.fr/

Bernard Cottret (1951 – July 13, 2020)[1] was a French historian and literary scholar.[2]

Biography

Stemming from a family of artists and musicians, Bernard (Jean) Cottret is the son of Bernard Cottret (1923–2011) and Geneviève Aurel († 1999), classical singers and soloists. His only son Yann is also a musician. He studied at the lycée Descartes in

Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, where he is now Professor Emeritus.[4]
He is now retired and lives in the country; he is also an occasional lay preacher in the United Protestant Church of France. He founded and chaired the department of humanities of his university, and established close links with the College of Charleston, SC, where he held a summer seminar in 1994. Cottret is also a fellow of the
Protestant Reformation and religious issues, in relation with politics. He has given over 250 lectures in France, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada and the United States. He has organized annual summer seminars in partnership with Potsdam
and some Polish associates.

Works

It is primarily as a historian that he approached the

Protestant Reformation, reading Lucien Febvre and benefiting from the enlightened teachings of Robert Mandrou and Elisabeth Labrousse. Jean Delumeau and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie have also greatly influenced him at a later stage; the friendship of Jean Malaurie, of Laurent Theis, of Marianne Carbonnier, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and some others have confirmed his intellectual and spiritual acumen, favoring freedom of expression and thought over conformism and political correctness.[5] The Huguenots in England, published in 1991, uses the French Protestant diaspora to understand English society in the early modern period. In 1993, Christopher Hill welcomed in Renaissance Quarterly (Renaissance Quarterly) "a very interesting book, on a subject insufficiently explored by English-speaking historians. Professor Cottret begins with some useful remarks, of contemporary relevance, on immigration, past and present, and problems of adaptation, both for the immigrants and for the host country. In England the Huguenot churches maintained their cultural independence at the price of firm control by pastors and elders, striving to preserve the purity of Calvinist doctrine against the temptations of a differently authoritarian Anglican church and of the easier-going dissenting congregations”. He went on “for English-speaking readers the main interest of the story lies in the new angle of vision which it offers on English social development in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries". Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 831–832. The American edition of Calvin: A Biography (2000) was well received and described by the publication of The Institute on Religion and Public Life as the best of recent biographies.[6][7]

Awards

From 1988 to 2002, Bernard Cottret was a member of the steering committee of the

Paris West University Nanterre La Défense a thesis in English literature dedicated to Bolingbroke
who became for eighteenth-century Frenchmen the typical "philosophe anglois" and greatly influenced Voltaire and Montesquieu. It led, at the request of Jonathan Clark, to a book in English devoted to the political work of Bolingbroke, and the Conservative Enlightenment.

The

Académie française awarded several of his books (Monseigneur-Marcel history prize, silver medal in 1992 for Cromwell, François-Millepierres history prize in 2003 for the La Révolution américaine).[8] He also received in 1997 the prix Budget from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for Calvin, and more recently with his wife Monique Cottret, the Académie des sciences morales et politiques 2006 award Pierre-Georges Castex for French Literature for Jean-Jacques Rousseau en son temps. In July 2011 The Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
awarded him the Charles-Aubert-Histoire prize for the whole of his historical productions.

Bernard Cottret was among the founders of the Prix national du livre médiéval : Provins patrimoine mondial (National Book award medieval : Provins World Heritage), which first went to Michel Pastoureau for his book L’Ours, histoire d’un roi déchu (The Bear story of a fallen king) in September 2007. That same year, he was appointed a member of the André Kaspi Committee on public commemorations, by the defense secretary in charge of veterans. He later participated in the 2012 Jean-Jacques Rousseau committee for national celebrations at the Ministry of Culture. His notice is published in Contemporary Authors and Who's Who in France[9]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Décès de Bernard Cottret, historien français (in French)
  2. ^ (in French)Thomas More par Bernard Cottret Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ (in French) He spent a year abroad as French lecteur at Merton College, Oxford, in 1972-73 Bernard Cottret Archived 2019-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ (in French)Bernard Cottret Archived 2015-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ (in French)L’Appel : L’Historien et la Foi, Paris, Fayard, 1996, p. 67–79.
  6. ^ Moore, T. M. (April 2001). "Calvin: A Biography". First Things. Archived from the original on 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
  7. S2CID 144485120
    . Retrieved 2012-12-14.
  8. ^ (in French)Bernard COTTRET
  9. ^ (in French)Bernard Cottret
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