Joseph Joubert

See also: Joubert

Joseph Joubert , born with Montignac (Périgord) the May 7th 1754 and died in Paris the May 4th 1824, is a Moraliste and essay writer French.

Starting from the 14 years age, it followed the courses of a religious college of Toulouse, where it taught itself thereafter, until 1776. In 1778, it went up to Paris where it met D' Alembert and Diderot and bound friendship with Chateaubriand.

He lived between Paris, near his friends, and his country retirement of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.

Of alive sound, Joubert never published anything, but he wrote many letters, as well as notes and newspapers where he deferred his reflections on the nature of the man, the literature, and other subjects, in a poignant style, readily aphoristic.

To her death, its widow entrusted these notes to Chateaubriand, which made some publish a choice under the title Recueil of the thoughts of Mr. Joubert in 1838. More complete editions were going to follow, like those of the correspondence.

The tomb of Joseph Joubert is with the Cimetière of Montmartre.

Quotations

  • To teach, it is to learn twice.
  • When my friends are one-eyed, I look at them profile.
  • It has there no more today of irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more not involved feelings: it is a good born of an evil.
  • All the men come from little, and it is necessary little of them so that they do not come from nothing.
  • the ambition is pitiless: any merit which does not serve it is méprisable in its eyes.
  • It is not abundance, but the excellence which makes to the richness
  • the children need more models than of authority.
  • the goal of the discussion should not be the victory, but the improvement.
  • There are good sciences whose existence is necessary and whose culture is useless. Such are mathematics.
  • the reason can inform us of what it is necessary to avoid, the heart alone says to us what it is necessary to make.

Principal editions

  • Collection of the thoughts of Mr. Joubert , published by Chateaubriant, It Normalizing, Paris, 1838 Text in line
  • Thought, tests, maxims and correspondence of J. Joubert , preceded by a note on its life, its character and its work, collected and put in order by Mr. Paul Raynal, It Normalizing, Paris, 1850; 1861 Text in line
  • Thought , introduction and notes by Victor Giraud, with the historical Note of the brother of Joubert Joubert, Bloud, Paris, 1909
  • Notebooks , texts collected on the manuscripts autographs by Andre Beaunier, Gallimard, Paris, 1938; 1994
  • Correspondence of Louis de Fontanes and Joseph Joubert: (1785-1819) , full text published for the first time according to the documents autographs with an introduction and notes by Rémy Tessonneau, Plon, Paris, 1943
  • Tests: 1779-1821 , integral and critical edition of partly new texts collected and presented by Rémy Tessonneau, A.G. Nizet, Paris, 1983
  • general Correspondence: 1774-1824 , edition established by Rémy Tessonneau, William Blake and Co., Bordeaux, 3 volumes, 1996-1997
  • Four notebooks , edition established and annotated by David Kinloch and Philippe Mangeot, University off London, Institute off lovesong studies, London, 1996

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