Théodore Joran

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Joseph Théodore Joran (born February 4, 1858) was a French writer, sociologist and translator. Joran is manly known today as an antifeminist, a subject he treated from a social and economic standpoint.

Biography

Théodore Joran was born in Soultzmatt, the son of Paul Louis Alexandre Joran, director of spinning mills, and Amélie Bayer. After receiving a degree in literature, Joran taught in various high schools, including the Lycée Fénelon, Paris.

In Laval, he became friends with Émile Trolliet. The latter found in Joran and his wife, whom he had known in Laval, and who later came to live in Paris, a second family, where, as he liked to repeat, "relatives by choice". It was in the salon of Mrs. Joran that he conceived the idea of L'Âme d'un résigné and that he met the main characters of this novel.

Joran was the author of several works on the feminist movement, as well as of pleas on the defense of the French language. He was a journalist at L'Univers, director of La Revue idéaliste and writer and director of the École d'Assas.[lower-alpha 1]

He held several positions abroad, as a vacation French teacher at the University of Bonn in 1899, as a French teacher in a high school in Romania and as a lecturer in 1913 for the promotion of the French language and culture. He was a severe critic of the direct method of teaching modern languages.

He spoke German, and went to Germany on several occasions between 1900 and 1914[lower-alpha 2] and often made comparisons between French and German in his works on French. In the wake of his travels, he also wrote articles on contemporary Germany in the Revue bleue and the Mercure de France.

In 1910, he was sued and convicted for his review of Aurel's 1908 novel Pour en finir avec l’amant. The judge of the case, Jules Granié — a friend of Albert Gleizes, Guillaume Apollinaire and his circle[1] — considered that Joran had abused the right of criticism and condemned him to a fine of 100 francs.[2]

He wrote extensively on feminism.[lower-alpha 3] According to him, women did not need to be defended against some imaginary tyranny, but rather against themselves and their false friends, because Joran says, the oppression of woman coincides with the humiliation of man. "Notice that there is no worse enemy of the woman than the feminist," he stated.[3]

Joran was a censor and active member of the Sociology Society of Paris, and gave numerous lectures at the sessions of this society. He gave economic and political lectures in Paris and in the provinces on behalf of the Anti-Austro-German Society.

He also translated the works by Klaus Mann[4] and Friedrich von Schiller[5] into French.

Honors

His 1905 work on The Lie of Feminism won the acclaimed Prix Montyon of the French Academy and his 1913 study on Women’s Suffrage earned him the budget prize of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.[lower-alpha 4] His work Feminists before feminism, in which he analized the famous black legend concerning the Synod of Mâcon, was awarded the Prix d’Académie in 1936.[6]

See also

Works

  • Conférence sur MM. Erckmann et Chatrian, prononcée à Saint-Dié, le 11 décembre 1881... - L'Homme et le poète dans Théodore Jouffroy, discours de distribution de prix (1882)
  • Au fil du Rhin (1896)
  • Cinna (1897)
  • Le Nouveau régime scolaire, la loi sur l'enseignement libre (1904)[lower-alpha 5]
  • Université et enseignement libre, deux systèmes d'éducation (1905)
  • Plaidoyer pour les langues mortes (1905)[lower-alpha 6]
  • Le mensonge du féminisme: opinions de Léon H... (1905)
  • Autour du féminisme (1906)
  • Langue allemande, choix de germanismes, suivi d'une liste alphabétique des verbes irréguliers Série I (1906)
  • Choses d'Allemagne (1906)[lower-alpha 7]
  • Le chapitre des beaux-arts du siècle de Louis XIV de Voltaire: édition classique. précédée d'une étude sur Voltaire critique littéraire (1906)
  • Le Féminisme à l'heure actuelle (1907)
  • Au cœur du féminisme avec une lettre-préface de M. Frédéric Masson (1908)
  • La trouée féministe ; avec une étude-préface par Gabriel Aubray (1909)
  • Les féministes avant le féminisme: Christine de Pisan, Érasme, Corneille Agrippa, Agrippa d'Aubigné (1910; with preface by Louise Faure-Favier)
  • Le suffrage des femmes (1914)
  • Méthode rationnelle et pratique de langue allemande, par A. Fontaine,... Théodore Joran,... baccalauréat latin-langues (1917)
  • Le Péril de la syntaxe et la crise de l'orthographe: recueil de locutions vicieuses, dressé par ordre alphabétique (1920)
  • Un illustre oublié : Antoine-Léonard Thomas (1926)
  • Les Manquements à la langue française. Tournures et locutions vicieuses méthodiquement classées et redressées (1928)
  • Réflexions sur Delphine, roman de Mme de Staël (1928)
  • Les Manquements à la langue française. Exercices pratiques (1930)
  • A propos du centenaire de Valentine : la palinodie féministe de George Sand (1932)
  • Les féministes avant le féminisme. 2e série, La légende du Concile de Mâcon (1935)

Notes

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A free university institution.
  2. ↑ In particular, a stay in a spa town in the Black Forest.
  3. ↑ He wrote the preface to Anna Radius Zuccari's Les Idées d’une femme sur le féminisme in 1908.
  4. ↑ The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences offered this prize for the best essay on the question of whether voting rights should be conferred to women.
  5. ↑ Articles published in L'Univers in February and March 1903.
  6. ↑ Articles published in L'Univers.
  7. ↑ In this volume, Joran assembled a series of articles published at various dates in different magazines. They are impressions of a trip to Germany, studies of German literature, both contemporary such Gabriele Reuter and Elisabeth Dauthendey, and classics such as Schiller and Goethe. Finally, there are articles on how to teach German in France.

Citations

  1. ↑ Vergnes, Georges (1959). "Le Substitut Granié et Guillaume Apollinaire," Revue de l'Albigeois, pp. 46–54.
  2. ↑ Le Radical (20 janvier 1910), p. 4.
  3. ↑ La trouée féministe (Paris: A. Savaète, 1909).
  4. ↑ Je suis de mon temps (Paris: Impr. Ramlot et Cie, 1933).
  5. ↑ Extraits de la Guerre de Trente ans, avec une étude sur Schiller historien et une carte du théâtre de la guerre (Paris: C. Poussielgue, 1896.
  6. ↑ "Théodore Joran," Académie française.

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