Marc Soriano, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marc Soriano

French writer

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1918

Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1994

Profession: philosopher, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Marc Soriano

  • Marc Soriano (7 July 1918 in Cairo – 18 December 1994) was a 20th-century French philosopher. After the death of his father, his family went to Italy.
  • He stayed in Pisa between 1921 and 1927, then came to live in Paris.
  • A pupil at LycĂ©e Condorcet in Paris, he was the only khâgneux received at the École Normale SupĂ©rieure in 1939, but his name is not on the directories.
  • Mobilized in 1939, wounded in April 1940, he joined the RĂ©sistance in 1942.
  • He was received in the first place at the December special session of the Aggregation of Philosophy Competition of 1945.
  • For some time he followed the seminars of Pierre-Maxime Schuhl at the Sorbonne, and then worked in Geneva with Jean Piaget...
  • He specialized in tales, especially those of Charles Perrault.
  • Suffering from myasthenia gravis since 1978, which had caused him to lose the use of speech, he died 18 December 1994. A laureate of the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1968 for his study les Contes de Perrault, culture savante et tradition populaire, the AcadĂ©mie française also bestowed him her Prix d'AcadĂ©mie in 1991 for all his work. He was violinist Denise Soriano-Boucherit's brother.

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