Jean-Michel Delacomptée notably published “Our French language” (Fayard, 2018), Grand Prix Hervé-Deluen from the French Academy. He is also the author of literary portraits, in particular of Montaigne, La Boétie, Racine, Bossuet, La Bruyère and Saint-Simon, often published in the prestigious collection "L'un et l'autre" by J.-B. Pontalis, at Gallimard. Latest work published: “Cabale à la cour” (Robert Laffont, coll. “Les passe-murailles”, 2020), a play enriched with stories whose plot is drawn from the Memoirs of Saint-Simon.
I often open
René Char in his poems
, the work that Paul Veyne devoted to the immense poet of whom he had read everything.
Paul Veyne reveals himself there in all his breadth, rich in unfailing erudition and a passionate curiosity for knowledge independent of his own, the Roman world.
He was indeed to Romanism what Jean-Pierre Vernant and Jacqueline de Romilly were to Greek Antiquity, or Marc Fumaroli to the Classical age.
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