Antoine Compagnon

Antoine Compagnon (born 20 July 1950 in Brussels) is a Professor of French Literature at the Collège de France and Columbia University. He studied at École Polytechnique and the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and earned his doctorate from Paris Diderot University.

Compagnon has taught at various universities in France, the UK, and the USA, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academia Europaea. He has received awards including the Claude Lévi-Strauss Prize and honorary degrees from King’s College London, HEC Paris, and the University of Liège.

Since 2012, he has produced and broadcast the radio programs A Summer with Montaigne and A Summer with Baudelaire, which were later published as bestselling books.

His authored and edited works include literary and philosophical studies on Montaigne, Proust, Baudelaire, and classical French literature, such as A Summer with Montaigne, A Summer with Baudelaire, and A Summer with Pascal.