Born in Dijon on May 20 1895. Died June 4 1977.
Education and professional career
- 1913-1915, 1919-1920 : Student at the École Normale Supérieure
- 1915 : Licencié ès-lettres (Classical languages and literature)
- 1915-1922 : Member of the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques (Madrid-Seville 1915-1916, Madrid 1920-1922)
- January-June 1916 : Delegate to the Allied International Propaganda Committee in Spain
- 1916-1919 : In the army, second lieutenant of artillery
- 1920 : Agrégé d'Espagnol
- 1922-1926 : Professor of French Language at the University of Lisbon
- 1926-1929 : Professor of Spanish at the Lycée de Bordeaux
- 1929-1937 : Lecturer in Southern languages and literature at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers
- 1934-1939 : Member of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes (Vigilance Committee of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals)
- 1936 : Front Populaire candidate in legislative elections in Algiers
- 1937 : Doctor of Letters
- 1937-1945 : Professor of Spanish language and literature at the Paris Faculty of Letters
- july1-16 August 1941 : Interned at Royallieu camp (Compiègne)
- 1945-1965 : Professor at the Collège de France (Languages and literatures of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America)
- 1955-1965 : Administrator of the Collège de France
Awards and honors
- Croix de guerre 1914-1918
- 1953 : Member of the Institut, elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- 1964 : Commander of the Legion of Honor
- 1958 : President of the Société des américanistes
- 1959 : President of the International Association of Comparative Literatures
- 1962 : President of the Société des hispanistes français
- 1964 : President of the Asociación internacional de hispanistas
- Abroad, Marcel Bataillon has been a member of several academies and learned societies, and the recipient of numerous awards, honorary doctorates and decorations
