Antoine Compagnon

Antoine Compagnon studied at Prytanée National Militaire, École polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Collège de France, Columbia University and France Inter. Positions recorded include president and member of the Académie française. Works named in the authority record are Les Antimodernes. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms, Officer of Arts and Letters and Claude Levi-Strauss Award.

• Name — Antoine Compagnon • Born — 20 July 1950 • Birthplace — Brussels, Belgium • Education — École Polytechnique • Known for — Member of the Académie Française

Compagnon studied at École Polytechnique (1970) and École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1975), and holds a Doctorate of Paris Diderot University (1985).

Compagnon was a Fellow of the Fondation Thiers (1975-1978), taught at École Polytechnique (1978-1985), Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London (1980-1981), University of Rouen (1981-1985), was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1986, 1990), Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988), Professor at University of Maine (France), Le Mans (1989-1990), visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1994), Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University (1994-2006). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) and Academia Europaea (2006), and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2009). He received an Honorary Degree of King's College London (2010), HEC Paris (2012), and University of Liège (2013), and the Claude Lévi-Strauss Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (2011). In 2012, Compagnon did a daily broadcast on France Inter, Un été avec Montaigne. The programme was published as a book which became a bestseller in 2013. He has done several more Un été avec series, including Un été avec Baudelaire in 2014. In 2013, he curated a show of Proust's manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France at the Morgan Library.

He was employed by Collège de France, Columbia University and France Inter. Recorded positions include president and member of the Académie française. He belonged to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, Academia Europaea and Académie Française.