Draft:Maurice Pollet

Maurice Pollet was born in Bourganeuf, Creuse, France, to a family of teachers{{Cite web |title=Registres paroissiaux et de l'état civil |url=https://archives.creuse.fr/rechercher/archives-numerisees/registres-paroissiaux-et-de-letat-civil |access-date=2024-08-13 |website=archives.creuse.fr |language=fr}}. He had an older sister, Yvonne Meynier (née Pollet). Following the death of his father in World War I, Pollet was designated a Ward of the Nation (Pupille de la Nation) on 7 March 1919, a status that provided him with financial support for his education until the age of 21 and other benefits{{Cite journal |last=DEKOBOR |first=W. |date=2013-04-01 |title=Le Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de la guerre: genèse et particularités (2e partie) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.6661 |journal=Revue Médecine et Armées |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=109–118 |doi=10.17184/eac.6661 |issn=0300-4937}}. At the age of 19, he traveled to Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, to further his studies{{Cite news |date=9 August 1929 |title=EDUCATIONAL, Ac. STUDENT, 8.A., requires post in family to teach French in return for board. - Apply: Mr. Maurice Pollet, 14 Grafton Road. Bedford. |work=Bedfordshire Times and Independent |publication-place=Bedfordshire, England}}.

In January 1933, Pollet reached out to the poet A.E. Housman by sending a questionnaire through Housman's publisher, Grant Richards. Despite Housman’s known aversion to personal interviews, he surprisingly completed and returned the questionnaire, acknowledging that he felt it might be worthwhile "for the sake of posterity" to answer some of Pollet’s inquiries{{Cite book |last=Vincent |first=Edgar |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787440982 |title=A.E. Housman |date=2018-05-16 |publisher=Boydell and Brewer Limited |doi=10.1017/9781787440982 |isbn=978-1-78744-098-2}}. Later, in 1937, Pollet collaborated with Housman on a published work{{Cite journal |last1=Housman |first1=A.E. |author-link=A. E. Housman |last2=Pollet |first2=Maurice |title=Étude suivie d'une lettre inédite de A.E. Housman à M. Pollet. |journal=La revue Études Anglaises |oclc=504443907}}.

At the age of 33, on 9 August 1944, Maurice Pollet married Myrtle Florence Roberts in Chelsea, London . They had two sons, Robert (deceased) and John.{{Cite news |date=2000-01-06 |title=Personal Announcements, Deaths |work=Eastern Daily Press |pages=27 |publication-place=Norwich, Norfolk, England}}

In 1971, Pollet published John Skelton; Poet of Tudor England.{{Cite book |last1=Pollet |first1=Maurice |title=John Skelton: poet of Tudor England |last2=Warrington |first2=John |date=1971 |publisher=Dent |isbn=978-0-460-03937-6 |edition=1. publ |location=London}} This work is cited frequently in John Skelton: The Complete English Poems edited by John Scattergood, where he discusses the historical and cultural context surrounding Skelton’s poetry{{Cite book |last1=Skelton |first1=John |title=John Skelton : the complete English poems |last2=Scattergood |first2=Vincent John |date=1983 |publisher=Penguin books |isbn=978-0-14-042233-7 |series=Penguin English poets |location=Harmondsworth}}. Steven W. May, in his book The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts, discusses the influence of earlier poets such as John Skelton and acknowledges Pollet’s contribution to the understanding of the Tudor literary tradition.{{Cite book |last=May |first=Steven W. |title=The Elizabethan courtier poets: the poems and their contexts |date=1991 |publisher=University of Missouri press |isbn=978-0-8262-0749-4 |location=Columbia}} Pollet's book is a translation of his thesis, which he presented to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Paris for his Doctor of Philosophy (Doctorat ès Lettres) in 1962

In 1959, Pollet was Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Humane Sciences at University of Dakar with a staff of 9.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalhan012640mbp/page/n5/mode/2up?q=1949 |title=International Handbook of Universities |date=1959 |publisher=The International Association Of Universities |location=Paris}} While at this establishment, Pollet wrote on England and the abolition of slavery; the decolonisation of India and Nigeria; and post partition Cashmere in Bangladesh.{{Cite book |last=Pollet |first=Maurice |url=http://bibnum.ucad.sn/viewer.php?c=articles&d=pollet%5fmaurice%5f1 |title=L'Angleterre et l'abolition de l'esclavage}}{{Cite book |last=Pollet |first=Maurice |url=http://bibnum.ucad.sn/viewer.php?c=articles&d=la%5fdecolonisation%5fde%5fl%5finde |title=Université de Dakar, annales de la faculté, No 5 1975, La décolonisation d l'inde - Esquisse d'une évolution |date=1975 |publisher=Presse universataire de France}}{{Cite book |last=Pollet |first=Maurice |url=http://bibnum.ucad.sn/viewer.php?c=articles&d=le%5fnigeria%5fde%5fla%5fdecolonisation%5fa%5fl%5findependance |title=Université de Dakar, annales de la faculté, No 7 1977, Le Nigeria de la décolonisation a l'indépendance |date=1977 |publisher=Presse universataire de France |publication-date=1977}}{{Cite book |last=Pollet |first=Maurice |url=http://bibnum.ucad.sn/viewer.php?c=articles&d=pollet%5fmaurice%5f2 |title=Du Cashmire au Bangladesh}}

In 1975, Pollet played a pivotal role in the establishment and activities of the Société d’Étude des Pays du Commonwealth (SEPC), serving as its founding president and the editor of its journal Commonwealth. It was published twice a year with special issues between 1976 and 1983, which spotlighted the works of prominent authors such as Patrick White, Doris Lessing, Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Margaret Laurence, and Albert Wendt, contributing significantly to the dissemination of Commonwealth literature in France.{{Cite web |last=Durix |first=Jean-Pierre |last2=Froude-Durix |first2=Carole |date=2022-04-02 |title=“A New Editorial Team for Commonwealth”, Commonwealth Essays and Studies [Online], 27.2 {{!}} 2005 connection on 20 January 2025 |url=http://journals.openedition.org/ces/11408}} SEPC and its journal remain an important resource those interested post colonial studies.{{Cite web |last=Bernard |first=Catherine |title=Livre blanc sur la recherche en études anglophones Rapport sur le secteur n°6 : XXe siècle |url=https://saesfrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/livreblanc.pdf |website=saesfrance.org}}

• 1945, Regard Sur L’Angleterre En Guerre (Causerie Faite Le 5 Novembre 1944 à La Régionale Parisienne). imp. Coneslant.
• 1961, La Tragédie de Roméo et Juliette de William Shakespeare : Edition Critique Avec Traduction, Aubier, Editions Montaigne,
• 1962, John Skelton (c. 1460-1592) Contribution a L’histoire de La Prerenaissance Anglaise. Didier.
• 1963, L’Afrique Du Commonwealth. Éditions Saint-Paul.
• 1971, John Skelton; Poet of Tudor England. Bucknell University Press.
• 1987,Souvenirs Retrouvés d’Afrique Du Nord et Du Levant : 136 Croquis ; Suivis de Notes de Route ; et Du Journal d’Un Tirailleur Au Liban et En Syrie. Impr. Lecomte.