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Camille Pitollet
1874–1964
A French scholar of Spanish, German, and Romance literature, he spent decades exploring writers, texts, and literary history across languages. His work ranged from criticism and translation to editions of classic Spanish authors, making him a lively guide to European letters.
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V. Blasco Ibáñez, ses romans et le roman de sa vie
by Camille Pitollet
About the author
Born in Véronnes, France, on October 24, 1874, Camille Pitollet was a French Romanist, Hispanist, and Germanist. He is remembered as a prolific literary scholar whose career centered on Spanish literature and its connections to the wider European world.
He passed the newly created agrégation d'espagnol in 1902, carried out research in Hamburg in the early 1900s, and later returned to France to teach German at the secondary-school level. Over the years he published extensively on Spanish literature, literary history, and criticism, and he also worked as an editor, translator, and preface writer for texts linked to figures such as Cervantes.
Library records list a large body of work under his name, including studies, articles, and editions published across the first half of the twentieth century. He died in Pau on June 25, 1964.