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Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 26, 1980) This is the second time in a very short space of time that I've had to talk to you about Roland Barthes. A few years ago, when I proposed to welcome him among you, the originality and importance of a …

Marcel Bataillon (May 20, 1895 – June 4, 1977) Although many of our colleagues knew Marcel Bataillon's work and person much better than I did, I felt it incumbent on me, as his successor in this role, to pay him a traditional tribute. His death, which …

Emile Benveniste (May 27, 1902 - October 3, 1976) Emile Benveniste, who died in Versailles on October 3, 1976, was a scholar who for over thirty years embodied his discipline in all its fullness and diversity. He was born in Aleppo in 1902. Agrégé in …

Arsène d'Arsonval (1851-1941) Henri Bergson (1859-1941) The last few weeks have been heavy for us, and in the space of eight days we have lost two of our most eminent colleagues, both honorary professors: Arsène d'Arsonval and Henri Bergson. They are both …

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) Gentlemen, I thought, at the beginning of this year which finds France at its lowest ebb, its life subjected to the harshest trials, its future almost unimaginable, that I should express here the wishes we all form, absent and …