Author:Joseph Bédier
20th century French writer. Of Breton origin, he spent his childhood in Réunion, and later became a teacher of medieval French literature at various universities. He revived interest in several important old French texts, including Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900), La chanson de Roland (1921), and Les fabliaux (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death.
WorksEdit
- Le lai de l’ombre (1890)
- Le fabliau de Richeut (1891)
- Les fabliaux, études de littérature populaire et d’histoire littéraire du Moyen Âge (1893)
- De Nicolao Museto (gallice Colin Muset), francogallico carminum scriptore (1893)
- Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900)
- Le roman de Tristan par Thomas (2 vol., 1902-1905)
- Études critiques (1903)
- Les deux poèmes de la folie Tristan (1907)
- Légendes épiques, recherches sur la formation des chansons de geste (1908-1913)
- Les chansons de croisade (1909)
- Les chansons de Colin Muset (1912)
- Les crimes allemands d’après les témoignages allemands (1915)
- Comment l’Allemagne essaie de justifier ses crimes? (1915)
- L’effort français (1919)
- La chanson de Roland (critical edition, 1920)
- La chanson de Roland (after the Oxford manuscript, 1922)
- Commentaires sur la chanson de Roland (1927)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1938, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
