Victor Giraud

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Sketch of Victor Giraud, Les Nouvelles littéraires (15 December 1923)

Victor Giraud (26 November 1868 – 14 February 1953) was a French academic and literary critic.

Biography

Victor Giraud was born in Mâcon, the son of craftsmen. He studied classics at the lycée in Mâcon, before entering the École normale supérieure of Paris in 1889. Appointed professor in 1892, he became agrégé de lettres in 1894 and in the same year took up the chair of French literature at the University of Fribourg, succeeding Joseph Bédier. Along with Pierre-Maurice Masson, he defended Loisy's ideas in Fribourg during the modernist crisis. As a result of this second tendency, wrote Émile Poulat, "Fribourg was repeatedly denounced as a 'modernist den'."

In 1902 and 1903, he edited the Revue de Fribourg, and then became general secretary of the Revue des deux Mondes thanks to Ferdinand Brunetière. He also contributed to a number of periodicals, including Le Figaro, Cahiers de la Quinzaine, Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France and Émile Faguet's Revue latine and Annales de philosophie chrétienne. In 1912, he was awarded the gold medal for literary criticism. In the same year, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. In 1926, the French Academy awarded him a prize for his considerable body of work.

Victor Giraud died in Sartrouville at 84 years of age.

External links

• Victor Giraud
• Works by Victor Giraud at Gallica