Marc Fumaroli

Marc Fumaroli studied at Lycée Thiers, Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV and Aix-Marseille University. The recorded working language is French and English. Employment is recorded with Collège de France, University Lille-III and Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV. Positions recorded include president and seat 6 of the Académie française. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms, Rome Prize and Balzan Prize.

• Name — Marc Fumaroli • Born — 10 June 1932 • Birthplace — Marseille, France • Died — 24 June 2020 • Place of death — Paris, France • Education — Lycée Thiers • Alma Mater — Aix-Marseille University University of Paris • Occupation — Historian • Known for — Member of the Académie Française

Following his appointment to a chair in Seventeenth Century Studies at Paris-Sorbonne University (1980), he was elected to a Chair in Rhetoric and Society in Europe (16th and 17th century) at the Collège de France. He held it from 1986 to 2002, until mandatory retirement, and was an emeritus professor. He is acknowledged for the revival of Rhetoric as field of study of European culture, in a sharp move away from both structuralism and post-modernism. His pioneering work remains L'Âge de l'éloquence (1980). In 1994, as a Voltaire scholar, he gave (in French) the British Academy's Master-Mind Lecture.

• 2011: When the World Spoke French (Quand l'Europe parlait français), translated by Richard Howard (New York: New York Review of Books) • 2018: The Republic of Letters (La République des Lettres), translated by Lara Vergnaud (New Haven: Yale University Press)

He was employed by Collège de France, University Lille-III, Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV, Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers and University of Lille. Recorded positions include president and seat 6 of the Académie française. He belonged to Académie Française, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, American Academy of Arts and Letters and American Philosophical Society.

Marc Fumaroli is recorded as having received Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms and Rome Prize. Recorded at birth as Marc Jean Honoré Fumaroli. Formation and teaching. Fumaroli studied at Lycée Thiers, Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV, Aix-Marseille University and University of Paris. The record notes the qualification doctorate.