{"id":5512,"date":"2010-12-19T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2010-12-19T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T16:46:09","slug":"jacqueline-de-romilly-1913-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/jacqueline-de-romilly-1913-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline de Romilly (1913-2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(\u201dJacqueline de Romilly chez elle en 2004\u2033, photos Olivier Roller)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jacqueline de Romilly<\/strong> who passed away yesterday at 97, was a magnificent Hellenist & Greek scholar, who collected firsts: the first woman accepted at the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, the first woman professor elected to the Coll\u00e8ge de France, the first woman elected to the \u201cAcad\u00e9mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,\u201d the second woman (after Marguerite Yourcenar) elected to the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise, and the recipient of more honors than one may easily enumerate. But what she will be remembered for is, as Pierre Assouline writes on his \u201cR\u00e9publique des Lettres\u201d blog, \u201ca lesson: never to fold, never to renounce, never to give up.\u201d This scholar, author of injumerable books, spent a good part of the second half of her life fighting to save the Humanities. Assouline, again, writes how she \u201cbrought home the point, again and again, and in all media willing to hold out a microphone to her, that ancient languages were the basis of contemporary ideas, not only those of democracy but the very sense of what it means to be human,\u201d and that every \u201chonn\u00eate homme\u201d had to study that field to some degree. If you have French, you can read the complete blog here<\/a>, the obit in Le Monde here<\/a>, or watch and listen to here on an old TV show (Bernard Pivot\u2019s \u2018Apostrophes,\u2019) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among her publications are L\u2019Enseignement en d\u00e9tresse <\/em>(1984), on the problems of the current French educational system, (& with what is going on in this country in terms of ancient and foreign languages \u2014 see the posts on Nomadics re the LLC department at the University at Albany \u2014 this book makes for prescient reading). She also published many volumes of essays, among them, Histoire et raison chez Thucydide<\/em> (1956), La douceur de la pens\u00e9e grecque<\/em> (1979), a Que sais-je? on Homer (1986), a biography of Alcibiades (1995), as well as a novel, Ouverture \u00e0 c\u0153ur<\/em> (1990), and short stories that tell of her experiences, Les Oeufs de P\u00e2ques<\/em> (1993) et Laisse flotter les rubans<\/em> (1999). Not enough is available in English at this point, but check out her A Short history of Greek Literature, translated by Lillian Doherty (University Of Chicago Press 1996) and The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens<\/em> translated by Janet Lloyd (Oxford University Press 1998).<\/p>\n

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