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Robert Briffault (
1876 -
11 December 1948) was a French novelist, historian, social anthropologist and surgeon.
He was born in
Nice,
France. His father served as private secretary to
Napoleon III. After the death of his father, Briffault and his Scottish-born mother emigrated to New Zealand. In May 1896 he married Anna Clarke; the couple had three children, Lister, Muriel, and Joan, born from 1897 to 1901. Briffault received his MB, ChB from the
University of Dunedin in
New Zealand in 1905 and commenced medical practice. After service on the
Western Front during
World War I, he settled in England, his wife having died. In the late 1920s he married again, to Herma Hoyt (1898-1981), an American writer and translator, best known for her English translations of modern French literature. The Briffaults became clients of the literary agent William Bradley and were befriended by his wife, Jenny. His book on the troubadours helped popularize the theory that they were heavily influenced by the poetry and music of Muslim Spain. Briffault debated marriage with
Malinowski in the 1930s and corresponded with
Bertrand Russell. He died in
Hastings,
Sussex, England on 11 December 1948.
Briffault is the author of several books, including:
- The Making of Humanity
- Psyche's Lamp
- The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
- Breakdown: The Collapse of Traditional Civilization
- Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions (1927)
- Europa (1936)
- Europa: The Days of Ignorance (novel); a best selling book in the United States in 1935
- Europa in Limbo (novel)
- Marriage Past and Present
- Sin and Sex
- Les Troubadours et le sentiment romanesque (1945), rev. tr. as The Troubadours (1965)
Asked how to pronounce his name, Briffault told
The Literary Digest: "Should be pronounced
bree'-foh, without attempting to give it a French pronunciation." (Charles Earle Funk,
What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)
Source
McMaster University entry
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