Charles-Henri de Fouchécour
(1925-2026) French Iranologist and eminent scholar of classical Persian language and literature. He taught at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) and at Sorbonne Nouvelle, where he succeeded Gilbert Lazard as University Professor and Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies. He also served as Director of the Institut français de recherche en Iran (IFRI) and founded Abstracta Iranica in 1978. Among his most influential works are Moralia: les notions morales dans la littérature persane du IIIe/IXe au VIIe/XIIIe siècle, the first complete French translation of Hâfez’s Divân, and the translation of the Maqâlât-e Shams.
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