13 Facts About Bernard Cottret

Bernard Cottret was a French historian and literary scholar.

Bernard Cottret studied at the lycee Descartes in Rabat and at the lycee Chaptal in Paris, where he met his wife, Monique Cottret, nee Astruc, a historian, before graduating from the Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines.

Bernard Cottret is retired and lives in the country; he is an occasional lay preacher in the United Protestant Church of France.

Bernard Cottret founded and chaired the department of humanities of his university, and established close links with the College of Charleston, SC, where he held a summer seminar in 1994.

Bernard Cottret is the author and editor of more than forty volumes, which address the history of the British Isles, colonial America, France and Europe in a comparative perspective.

Bernard Cottret authored fifty chapters in various books and forty articles in academic journals, not to mention numerous radio or television interviews and broadcasts.

Bernard Cottret has given over 250 lectures in France, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada and the United States.

Bernard Cottret has organized annual summer seminars in partnership with Potsdam and some Polish associates.

Professor Bernard Cottret begins with some useful remarks, of contemporary relevance, on immigration, past and present, and problems of adaptation, both for the immigrants and for the host country.

From 1988 to 2002, Bernard Cottret was a member of the steering committee of the Bibliotheque nationale de France.

Bernard Cottret received in 1997 the prix Budget from the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for Calvin, and more recently with his wife Monique Cottret, the Academie des sciences morales et politiques 2006 award Pierre-Georges Castex for French Literature for Jean-Jacques Rousseau en son temps.

Bernard Cottret later participated in the 2012 Jean-Jacques Rousseau committee for national celebrations at the Ministry of Culture.

Bernard Cottret's notice is published in Contemporary Authors and Who's Who in France.