Louis Leger
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Louis Léger (15 January 1843 – 30 April 1923) was a French writer and pioneer in Slavic studies. He was honorary member of Bulgarian Literary Society (now Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also member of Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in Paris. Academic institutions in Saint-Petersburg, Belgrade and Bucharest had given him a different status of membership. Léger studied under Aleksander Chodźko at the Collège de France, whose position he eventually succeeded in 1885 by taking up the Slav Literature and Language chair of Adam Mickiewicz, which he occupied until 1923. Léger claimed that those who had not lived during the Second French Empire could not possibly imagine the effect of Polish influence on French society. Léger helped translate various Polish works. His "A History of Austro-Hungary", first edition published in 1879 and last in 1920, was considered one of the best textbooks on the subject in any Western language. In 1916, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš founded the Comité national tchèque in Paris, and almost at the same time Louis Eisenmann, Léger, and Ernest Denis founded the Comité national d'études, which also advocated for the independence of a Czech state. In 1918, the French government created Czechoslovak legions, which represented a significant auxiliary force at a decisive phase of the war after Russia had made peace. On 28 October 1918, the Republic of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed in Prague. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions translated by Louis Leger 35
- À Pierre Loti
- La mauvaise femme, conte russe
- Le Poisson d'or
- Le petit poucet, conte russe
- Лисичка-сестричка и волк
- Народные русские сказки (Афанасьев)/Медведь, собака и кошка
- Кот и лиса
- Набитый дурак
- Le langage des oiseaux, conte russe
- Recueil de contes populaires slaves
- Une drachme de langue, conte serbe
- La table, la musette et le sac, conte tchèque
- La recette du soldat, conte russe
- La fille du doge, conte dalmate
- La gelée, le soleil et le vent, conte de la Russie blanche
- Le berger et le dragon, conte slovaque
- Le prince Inespéré, conte polonais
- La Baba-Iaga, conte russe
- Le langage des animaux, conte bulgare
- L'Origine de l'homme
- L’esprit du mort, conte polonais
- La misère, conte polonais
- La montre enchantée, conte bohême
- Le bâton enchanté, conte tchèque
- Le loup nigaud, conte petit-russien
- L’œil qui pleure et l’œil qui rit, conte serbe
- La bavarde, conte petit-russien
- L’heureux berger, conte tchèque
- La danse du diable, conte polonais
- L’aumône, conte polonais
- Les deux frères, conte slovaque
- La paresse punie, conte bulgare
- Long, Large et Clairvoyant, conte tchèque
- Blanche-Neige
- Le cheveu merveilleux, conte serbe
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