Henriette Arasse (14th arrondissement, 25 February 1912 – 17th arrondissement, 29 January 2003) was a French art critic and teacher. She was also mother of the art historian, Daniel Arasse.

Henriette Arasse
Born
Henriette Elizabeth Lavergne

(1912-02-25)25 February 1912
Died29 January 2003(2003-01-29) (aged 90)
17th arrondissement, Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
Occupations
  • Art critic
  • teacher
Spouse
Raymond Arasse
(m. 1938; died 1990)
ChildrenDaniel Arasse

Biography

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Daughter of Albert Lavergne, a soldier, Henriette Lavergne began an academic career. In 1934, she was accepted into the École normale supérieure as part of the literary promotion.[1] She was one of the forty-one graduates of the École Normale Supérieure who passed the exam before it became reserved for men in 1940.[2] In 1938, she was admitted to the agrégation de lettres, the nineteenth,[3] and is appointed teacher in literary preparatory classes at the Lycée Molière alongside Suzanne Rey.[4]

In November 1938, she married Raymond Arasse[5] in Algiers. Born in 1912 in Tours,[6] he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure as part of the literary promotion in 1933[7] and was admitted to the agrégation de lettres in 1936, the fifth.[3] From their union was born Daniel Arasse, French art historian.[8]

Committed to the Franco-Ancienne, she was an independent candidate for the Secondary Education Council in 1958.[9] Auditioned in 1964 by the higher education study commission, she recalled her attachment to Latin, which she taught.

She died on January 29, 2003.[10]

Publications

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  • Théophile Gautier art critic, Algiers, National Museum of Fine Arts, 1957 (BnF 41660375)
  • Françoise Escoffier, Luis Marsans illustrates Proust, Revue des Deux Mondes, November 1982, p. 506-511

References

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  1. ^ Association of former students, pupils and friends of the École normale supérieure. "The directory". www.archicubes.ens.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  2. ^ Efthymiou, Loukia (2003-11-01). "The gender of the exams". Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire (18): 91–112. doi:10.4000/clio.613. ISSN 1252-7017. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  3. ^ a b Chervel, André. "The agrégés of secondary education. Directory 1809-1960. Digital resources in the history of education". rhe.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  4. ^ Costechareire, Arnaud (2011-09-09). "Parcours de khâgneux et de khâgneuses of the Lycée du Parc and the Lycée de jeunes filles de Lyon, 1924-1968" (PDF). www.theses.univ-lyon2.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  5. ^ "Raymond Arasse (1912-1990)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  6. ^ Departmental Archives of Indre-et-Loire. "Tours civil status, birth register from June 28 to December 31, 1912, view 225 / 411, 6NUM8/261/390". www.archives.touraine.fr. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  7. ^ Association of former students, students and friends of the École normale supérieure. "L'annuaire". www.archicubes.ens.fr. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  8. ^ Sara Longo (February 2014). "Arasse, Daniel". pp. 232–236..
  9. ^ Clémence Cardon-Quint (under the direction of Jean-Noël Luc and Gilbert Nicolas) (2010). Pure and impure letters? French teachers in the tumult of reforms: history of an illegitimate body (1946-1981). Rennes: Université Rennes-II. CQ2010. and n. 800.
  10. ^ "P2". remibourdot.net via Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2024-08-24..