Ch\u00e8res et chers coll\u00e8gues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C\u2019est avec une profonde tristesse que le bureau de l\u2019AFEA a d\u00fb par l\u2019interm\u00e9diaire de Monica Michlin vous faire part, le 12 f\u00e9vrier, du d\u00e9c\u00e8s de Bernard Vincent, qui fut pr\u00e9sident de notre association de 1983 \u00e0 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J’ai rencontr\u00e9 Bernard Vincent en 1991 alors qu\u2019il \u00e9tait professeur de civilisation am\u00e9ricaine \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans et cherchait \u00e0 d\u00e9velopper les recherches sur Thomas Paine dont il \u00e9tait le sp\u00e9cialiste en France. Il avait fait para\u00eetre une nouvelle traduction comment\u00e9e de Common Sense<\/em> (1983), de The Age of Reason<\/em> (1789) et de Rights of Man<\/em> (1991), ainsi que la premi\u00e8re biographie en fran\u00e7ais de Paine, Thomas Paine ou la religion de la libert\u00e9<\/em>, en 1987. Bernard Vincent a dirig\u00e9, entre 1991 et 1996, ma th\u00e8se sur le rapport de Paine \u00e0 la religion. Tout au long de ma carri\u00e8re, il m\u2019a soutenue et encourag\u00e9e. C\u2019est bien s\u00fbr Bernard Vincent qui m\u2019a fait conna\u00eetre l\u2019AFEA. Si je me suis investie activement dans notre association, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la pr\u00e9sider entre 2015 et 2018, c\u2019est en grande partie gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 lui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bienveillant, chaleureux, dr\u00f4le, Bernard Vincent \u00e9tait aussi un homme \u00e9rudit et d\u2019une insatiable curiosit\u00e9 qui a poursuivi ses activit\u00e9s de traducteur, de biographe et de chercheur jusqu\u2019\u00e0 r\u00e9cemment. Il a dirig\u00e9 Les Oubli\u00e9s de la R\u00e9volution am\u00e9ricaine<\/em>, avec \u00c9lise Marienstras en 1990, et la synth\u00e8se d\u2019un grand travail d\u2019\u00e9quipe, Histoire des \u00c9tats-Unis<\/em>, dont la 4e \u00e9dition est parue en 2016. Il est l\u2019auteur de nombreux articles, ainsi que de Amistad : les mutins de la libert\u00e9<\/em> (L\u2019Archipel, 1998), du Sentier des larmes : le grand exil des Indiens cherokees<\/em> (Flammarion, 2002), de Lincoln. L’homme qui sauva les \u00c9tats-Unis<\/em> (L\u2019Archipel, 2009), de Louis XVI<\/em> (Gallimard, Folio biographies, 2006), de La Fayette <\/em>(Gallimard, Folio biographies, 2014). En 2015, paraissait chez Fayard Ainsi nous parle Abraham Lincoln<\/em>. Lettres et discours pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s et traduits par Bernard Vincent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bernard Vincent \u00e9tait aussi un fin connaisseur de la langue anglaise. En 2013, il a fait para\u00eetre chez Albin Michel un Dictionnaire fran\u00e7ais-anglais des expressions populaires 7000 expressions + 1 glossaire des faux anglicismes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Les \u00e9tudes am\u00e9ricaines en France doivent beaucoup \u00e0 Bernard Vincent. Il a fait partie de ceux qui ont activement particip\u00e9 \u00e0 leur institutionnalisation dans l\u2019universit\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise. Il le raconte dans le film produit par l\u2019AFEA en 2017 \u00e0 l\u2019occasion du cinquanti\u00e8me anniversaire de l\u2019association, At Fifty Ever Alert<\/em>. Ce film, Bernard Vincent \u00e9tait heureux d\u2019y participer. On peut y entendre sa voix, le voir consulter ses archives \u2014 y compris l\u2019acte fondateur de l\u2019AFEA ! \u2014 et l\u2019\u00e9couter raconter comme il a \u00ab bataill\u00e9 comme un fou \u00bb pour que l\u2019AFEA puisse \u00eatre reconnue comme association autonome. Ce film est visible sur Vimeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bernard Vincent nous manquera. Nos pens\u00e9es vont \u00e0 ses proches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nathalie Caron, pour le bureau de l’AFEA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ch\u00e8res et chers coll\u00e8gues, C\u2019est avec une profonde tristesse que le bureau de l\u2019AFEA a d\u00fb par l\u2019interm\u00e9diaire de Monica 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