Jean Bousquet

Jean Bousquet (9 May 1912, Bordeaux – 1 April 1996, aged 83) was a 20th-century French Hellenist.

Biography

In 1931, Jean Bousquet was received "cacique" (first) at the admission competition of the École normale supérieure, in the same class than his future friend Georges Pompidou. Also received in first position at the agrégation in humanities, Jean Bousquet was admitted in 1936 to the French School at Athens. First a professor in a Bordeaux high school in 1942, he then served from 1946 at the Chair of ancient Greek in the University of Rennes.

An archaeologist and epigrapher, Jean Bousquet was one of the leading specialists of the Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi where he led several excavation missions, and of the site on the island of Delos. In this capacity, he undertook the publication of accounts of the Delphic Amphictyonic League, a set of papers which allowed to assess the balance of power in the classical Greek world.

In 1971, he was appointed Director of the École Normale Supérieure by Georges Pompidou in replacement of another Greek scholar, Robert Flacelière. His discretion and efficacity served him in coping with student unrest following May '68 and a distressing incident involving the death in 1980 of the wife of the renowned Marxist thinker, Louis Althusser.

Jean Bousquet was a regular member of the congregation at the Ecole Normale's parish church, Saint Etienne du Mont.

Jean Bousquet was renowned for his witty puns (canulars) regularly posted on his official noticeboard.

In 1981, at the end of his term in office, he returned to teaching and was elected a Greek language and civilization professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University, a position he held until his retirement.

Works
  • 1946: Le sanctuaire de Delphes et les fouilles françaises
  • 1952: Fouilles de Delphes : le trésor de Cyrène à Delphes
  • 1972: L'Art grec (with Kostas Papaïoannou), series. "L'art et les grandes civilisations"
  • 1977: Armée romaine et provinces
  • 1988: Études sur les comptes de Delphes
  • 1989: Corpus des inscriptions de Delphes. Volume II, Les comptes du quatrième et du troisième siècle.
gollark: There were things with Soviet truck depots driving trucks in circles pointlessly because they had a quota of "40000 miles driven".
gollark: If your factory is told to make 100K units of winter clothing of any kind they will probably just go for the simplest/easiest one, even if it isn't very useful to have 100K winter coats (extra small) (plain white). Now, you could say "but in capitalism they'll just make the cheapest one", but companies are directly subservient to what consumers actually want and can't get away with that.
gollark: That is why we have the "legal system"./
gollark: With a government.
gollark: Sure they can. Just apply penalties/taxes if you pollute stuff.

See also
  • École Normale Supérieure

Sources
  • Nicolas Weill, Jean Bousquet, helléniste et ancien directeur de la Rue-d'Ulm, Le Monde, 5 April 1996
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