Mario Roques (1 July 1875 – 8 March 1961) was a French scholar, professor of history of medieval literature and renowned Romance philologist. He translated and edited Le Roman de Renart.
Biography Mario Roques was born in Peru where his father was a consular agentPierre Chantraine, Éloge funèbre de Mario Roques, membre de l'Académie, Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 1961, 105-1, (p. 83–88) He started studying at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) from 1894 while following courses at the École nationale des chartes as an auditor. In 1895, he joined the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) where he trained in Romance philology under the guidance of Gaston Paris and Antoine Thomas. His teaching career began early and led him to teach at the ENS, the EPHE (where he would succeed Gaston Paris), the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (where he taught the Romanian and Albanian languages and of which he was appointed director, that is to say director, 1936), the Sorbonne and the Collège de France.
In 1910, he created the series "Les classiques français du Moyen âge" at . The following year, he succeeded Paul Meyer at the head of the journal Romania, which he would manage until his death.
Bibliography 1912: The Boy and the Blind Man : jeu du XIIIe, (reissue in 2005 with the addition of a long literary introduction and a file containing extracts of texts thematically related by Jean Dufournet) 1931: Le Roman du comte d'Anjou de Jehan Maillart 1936: Aucassin and Nicolette 1948: Le Roman de Renart 1951: Le Roman de Renart 1952: Les romans de Chrétien de Troyes : I Érec et Enide 1955: Le Roman de Renart 1956: Roland à Saragosse, poème méridional du XIVe siècle 1957: L'Estoire de Griseldis en rimes et par personages. 1958: Le Roman de Renart 1958: Le Chevalier à la charrette 1959: La Farce du pauvre Jouhan (in collaboration with Eugénie Droz). 1960: Le Roman de Renart 1960: Yvain, the Knight of the Lion 1963: Le Roman de Renart
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External links Mario Roques on data.bnf.fr Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Mario Roques on Persée Biographie on Persée Notice on the site of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique