Joseph Bédier was an important 20th century French writer and scholar.
Joseph Bédier was a son of lawyer Adolphe Bédier. Of Breton origin, Bédier spent his childhood in Réunion.
From 1889, he was a teacher of medieval French literature at various universities (1889-1891 Freiburg/Switzerland, c. 1903 Collège de France in Paris).
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