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Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) Fernand Braudel was born on August 24, 1902 in Luméville, a commune in the Meuse département. Between 1913 and 1920, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Voltaire. Agrégé in 1924, he began his teaching career in Constantine, …

Robert Courrier (1895-1986) When Robert Courrier entered the Collège de France in 1938, at the age of 42 from the Faculty of Medicine in Algiers, he was known for research that had earned him an international reputation. The Collège de France had already …

Raymond Aron (March 14, 1905 - October 17, 1983) Raymond Aron's death has moved international opinion; it has saddened French opinion, and even more deeply affected the Collège, since he wished to complete and crown his academic career in our house. The …

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 …