Émile Picot, Secretary to the Prince of Romania

Presentation

Émile Picot is known in learned French circles as a bibliographer and specialist in medieval theatre. He was also the first Professor of Romanian at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris, from 1875 to 1909. 

He was brought to Bucharest in 1866 by a major historic event: the arrival on the throne of the Romanian United Principalities of Prince Karl of Hohenzollern, whom he was to serve as French secretary.

His private letters, many of them here in print for the first time, relate the circumstances and course of his work and are a record of the Romanian political and cultural life of the time. They shed light on the French involvement in this episode of the Eastern Question and on the personality of the Prince of Romania, as well as that of the budding French erudite on the banks of the Danube.

Editor

Cécile Folschweiller lectures in Romanian language, literature and civilization at Inalco. Her publications include Philosophie et nation. Les Roumains entre question nationale et pensée occidentale au XIX^e siècle (Philosophy and Nation. The Romanians Between the National Question and Western Thought in the 19th Century) (Honoré Champion, 2017).

278 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 19/03/2020
ISBN: 9782858313402