Curated category
Academic staff of the Collège de France
- Muzaffar AlamMuzaffar Alam was born on the 3rd of February 1947, the same year India gained independence and the Mughal world he would spend his career studying had…
- Eugène BurnoufEugène Burnouf died on the 28th of May 1852, the same year his translation of the Lotus Sutra finally appeared in print.
- Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault was born on the 15th of October 1926 in Poitiers, France, into a family where a surgeon father expected his son to follow in his footsteps.
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss died on the 30th of October 2009, at the age of 100, and for four days the world did not know. When French President Nicolas Sarkozy…
- Yann LeCunYann LeCun was born on the 8th of July 1960 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a suburb of Paris, and his surname carries the fingerprints of a culture older than…
- Pierre GassendiPierre Gassendi was born on the 22nd of January 1592 in a village called Champtercier, near Digne, in the south of France.
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898, the son of a highly educated general in the French Army. By the time he died in the same city on…
- Yves BonnefoyYves Bonnefoy was born on the 24th of June 1923 in Tours, and by the time he died in Paris on the 1st of July 2016, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had called…
- Jean-Baptiste SayJean-Baptiste Say was born in Lyon on the 5th of January 1767, into a Protestant family whose roots had been uprooted by religious persecution a generation…
- Jules MicheletJules Michelet died on the 9th of February 1874, in the southern French town of Hyères, from a heart attack. He left behind nineteen volumes of French…