FAURIEL, CLAUDE-CHARLES. - Writer, b. at St-Etienne, 21 Oct. 1772, d. at Paris 15 July 1844. He had cultural ties with the leading French and foreign men of letters of the period (Mme de Staël, B. Constant, the Schlegel brothers, Ozanam, Stendhal, Thierry, Mérimée, etc.) and, in particular, was a guest at Brusuglio of Manzoni, whose tragedies he translated and to whom he was spiritually close.

From 1830 a lecturer in Romance philology at the University of Paris, through his teaching and his writings he gave impetus to historical and critical studies, with views that were not always exact, but original and stimulating. Among his works, the following are especially remembered: Histoire de la Gaule méridionale sous la domination des conquérants germains (4 vols., Paris 1836); Histoire de la littérature provençale (3 vols., ibid. 1846); Doute et les origines de la langue et de la littérature italiennes (2 vols., ibid. 1854).

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BIBL.: A. De Gubernatis, Manzoni e F. nel loro carteggio iurdico, Rome 1880; J. B. Galley, C. F., St-Etienne 1909; C. Giulio, Il Manzoni e il F., Turin 1918; J. Bédier, Les légendes épiques, III, Paris 1921, p. 200 ff.; E. Gabutti, Il Manzoni e gli ideologi francesi, Florence 1936, p. 283 ff.

Enzo Navarra

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