{{Short description|French literary scholar (1915–1995)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} '''Pierre-Georges Castex''' (20 June 1915 at Toulouse – 9 December 1995 at Paris) was a French academic, literary critic and author.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/bps/user-profile/4045 www.britannica.com]</ref>
Professor of Modern French Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University<ref>[http://www.balzac-etudes.paris-sorbonne.fr/balzac/index.php?section=10&part=1&ident=11 www.balzac-etudes.paris-sorbonne.fr]</ref> from 1956 until 1982, Castex was distinguished by election as a Member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.asmp.fr/sommaire.htm |title=www.asmp.fr |access-date=2012-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114083804/http://www.asmp.fr/sommaire.htm |archive-date=2013-01-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in 1974.
==Biography== An alumnus of the École normale supérieure (Paris) (1935), agrégé de lettres in 1938<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rhe.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/?q=agregsecondaire_laureats|author=André Chervel|title=Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1950|website=Ressources numériques en histoire de l'éducation|access-date=19 June 2014}}</ref> and Doctorate in 1951,<ref>{{cite web |title=Le conte fantastique en France de Nodier à Maupassant / Pierre-Georges Castex,... - Sudoc<!-- Vérifiez ce titre --> |url=http://www.sudoc.fr/00349053X |website=sudoc.fr |access-date=2021-10-16}}.</ref> he taught at Beauvais in 1938 and Saint-Maur in 1942. In 1946-1947, he was assistant professor at the Sorbonne (building). From 1947 to 1956, he taught at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III. From 1956 to 1982, Castex was Professor of modern Literature at the Sorbonne (building) and, since 1974, a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques .
He was related to former Senate (France) and Mayor Marc Castex, and married Marie-Madeleine Fargeaud.
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== External links == * [http://www.librairiedialogues.fr/personne/pierre-georges-castex/56898/ www.librairiedialogues.fr] * [http://www.prix-litteraires.net/prix/1878,prix-pierre-georges-castex.html ''Pierre-Georges Castex Prize'' (founded 2000)]
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