Prix Renaudot [SEP] named after
Prix Renaudot
The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () is a French literary award which was created in 1926 by 10 art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt.
The Prix Renaudot, while not officially related to the Prix Goncourt, is a kind of complement to it, announcing its laureate at the same time and place as the Prix Goncourt, namely on the first Tuesday of November at the Drouant restaurant in Paris. The Renaudot jurors always pick an alternative laureate in case
1646.
Renaudot died in Paris, in 1653.
Mark Tungate in 2007 termed him the "first French journalist" and the "inventor of the personal ad".
See also.
- Prix Renaudot, a literary award named after him
- Eusèbe Renaudot, his grandson
References.
- (1972) - "Public Welfare, science, and propaganda in seventeenth-century France; the innovations of Théophraste Renaudot." Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. . See also: JSTOR