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David Rousset was born in Roanne in the Loire department of central France on 18 January , the son of a Protestant industrial worker.
Christophe Rousset (French: [ʁusɛ]; born 12 April ) is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on....
Jean Rousset
Swiss literary critic (1910–2002)
Jean Rousset (20 February 1910 – 15 September 2002) was a Swissliterary critic who worked on French literature, and in particular on Baroque literature of the late Renaissance and early seventeenth century.
He is sometimes grouped with the Geneva School and with early Structuralism.
Biography
Jean Rousset began his studies in law, before changing to literature. He studied under Albert Thibaudet and Marcel Raymond and after working as a French lecturer in Halle and Munich, became professor at the University of Geneva.
François Rousset's sixteenth-century treatise was the first known text to promote the idea of caesarean birth.His thesis on French literature of the baroque period, published under the title La Littérature de l’âge baroque en France : Circé et le paon, was an immense critical success. It was one of the first studies to use the term "baroque" – which had been, up to that point, used exclusively in art history – to refer to literary works.
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