Marc Fumaroli
Marc Fumaroli was a French historian and essayist.Career
Following his appointment to a chair in Seventeenth Century Studies at Paris-Sorbonne University, he was elected to a Chair in Rhetoric and Society in Europe 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.Awards
Fumaroli was elected to the Académie Française on 2 March 1995 and became its director. He was also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions, the sister academy devoted to high erudition. He was a recipient of the prestigious Balzan Prize, the "Nobel" of the humanities.
Fumaroli was a foreign member of the British Academy and of the American Philosophical Society. He was also a member of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought.In English
