Mario Roques (1 July 1875 – 8 March 1961) was a French scholar, professor of history of medieval literature and renowned Romance philologist. He translated and edited Le Roman de Renart.

Biography

Mario Roques was born in Peru where his father was a consular agent^[1] He started studying at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) from 1894 while following courses at the École nationale des chartes as an auditor. In 1895, he joined the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) where he trained in Romance philology under the guidance of Gaston Paris and Antoine Thomas. His teaching career began early and led him to teach at the ENS, the EPHE (where he would succeed Gaston Paris), the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (where he taught the Romanian and Albanian languages and of which he was appointed director, that is to say director, 1936), the Sorbonne and the Collège de France.

In 1910, he created the series "Les classiques français du Moyen âge" at éditions Honoré Champion [fr]. The following year, he succeeded Paul Meyer at the head of the journal Romania, which he would manage until his death.