Henriette Arasse Explained

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
Birth Name:Henriette Elizabeth Lavergne
Birth Date:1912 2, df=yes
Birth Place:14th arrondissement, Paris, France
Death Place:17th arrondissement, Paris, France
Nationality:French
Education:École normale supérieure
Children:Daniel Arasse

Biography

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. 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: fr. Association of former students, pupils and friends of the École normale supérieure. The directory. www.archicubes.ens.fr. 2024-08-24.
  2. en. Loukia. Efthymiou. The gender of the exams. Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire . 91–112. 2003-11-01. 18 . 10.4000/clio.613 . 1252-7017. 2024-08-24.
  3. Web site: fr. Chervel, André. The agrégés of secondary education. Directory 1809-1960. Digital resources in the history of education . rhe.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr. 2024-08-24.
  4. Web site: fr. Costechareire, Arnaud. Parcours de khâgneux et de khâgneuses of the Lycée du Parc and the Lycée de jeunes filles de Lyon, 1924-1968. www.theses.univ-lyon2.fr. 2011-09-09. 2024-08-24.
  5. Web site: en . Raymond Arasse (1912-1990) . data.bnf.fr. 2024-08-24.
  6. Web site: en. 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. 2024-08-24.
  7. Web site: en. Association of former students, students and friends of the École normale supérieure. L'annuaire. www.archicubes.ens.fr. 2024-08-24.
  8. Web site: Sara Longo. Arasse, Daniel. 15b. 232–236. February 2014. .
  9. Book: Clémence Cardon-Quint (under the direction of Jean-Noël Luc and Gilbert Nicolas). Pure and impure letters? French teachers in the tumult of reforms: history of an illegitimate body (1946-1981). CQ2010. Rennes. Université Rennes-II. 2010. and n. 800.
  10. Web site: P2 . remibourdot.net via Internet Archive. http://web.archive.org/web/20180902012304/http://www.remibourdot.net/Fiches/D546/P3.htm . 2024-08-24. 2018-09-02 . .

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