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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 15:16:51 +0100
From: Luc Borot <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list FICINO <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: In Memoriam Jean Fuzier
The Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise
are sad to announce the death of their founder and friend Professor Jean
Fuzier. Jean died yesterday afternoon at his home in Arles. He had retired
last Spring.
He was a remarkable scholar in the fields of Renaissance English
rhetoric and prosody, best known for his edition of Shakespeare's *Sonnets*
and his translation of Shakespeare's poetry into French verse. He had
co-authored a translation of a selection of Donne's verse in the 1950s,
which was reissued by Gallimard a few years ago.
Jean's studies of Shakespeare's plays, his contributions to the
theoretical study of the "play-within" phenomenon, were often very subtle,
and as a teacher he contributed in preparing for a scholarly career dozens
of English scholars in France, whether they were his direct pupils, or his
partners in research.
As a founder, and later chairman of the Societe Francaise
Shakespeare, Jean Fuzier worked for the development and promotion of
Elizabethan studies in France, as a frequent visitor of the German
Shakespeare Society, he often had occasion to promote contacts between
'continental' Shakespeare scholars.
As co-founder of the Elizabethan Research Centre in Montpellier,
and of _Cahiers Elisabethains_, he contributed to the awakening of many
vocations, and to the publication of research that could have otherwise
remained secret or confidential.
His generosity and good humour were immense. He was the special
honoured guest of last year's Shakespeare Birthday celebrations in
Stratford, which he attended for 25 years on the occasion of the yearly
seminar of the Centre at the Shakespeare Institute, then at the Shakespeare
Centre. He was a regular visitor of the International Shakespeare
Conference and of the World Shakespeare Congress.
As examiner for the competitive exam of the Ecole Normale
Superieure, he succeeded in spotting young scholars in their early
twenties, and none of us ever had to regret following his advice, even for
those who did not choose the same speciality.
Home address:
Madame Fuzier
Domaine de Margaillan
192, route de Margaillan
Pont de Crau
12300 ARLES (FRANCE)
Sorry to have been a messenger of sad news for those who
liked him.
For the CERRA,
Luc Borot
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