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          Implicitly, at the level of the author-narrator connection, in the case of the autobiographical pact; the latter can take two forms: (a) the use of titles.!

          Philippe Lejeune

          French professor and essayist

          For the Belgian equestrian, see Philippe Le Jeune (equestrian).

          Philippe Lejeune

          Philippe Lejeune

          Born(1938-08-13)13 August 1938

          France

          OccupationWriter
          Years active1970–2008

          Philippe Lejeune (French pronunciation:[filipləʒœn]; born 13 August 1938) is a French professor and essayist, known as a specialist in autobiography.[1] He is the author of numerous works on the subject of autobiography and personal journals.

          The term 'autobiographical pact' was coined by the French academic Philippe Lejeune in his search for a distinctive definition of the genre 'autobiography.

        1. The autobiographical pact is a concept introduced by Philippe Lejeune that establishes a contract between the author and reader.
        2. Implicitly, at the level of the author-narrator connection, in the case of the autobiographical pact; the latter can take two forms: (a) the use of titles.
        3. Lejeune is a leading European critic and theorist of diary and autobiography.
        4. Philippe Lejeune is often credited with having defined autobiography, a compliment as impressive as it is, quite simply, unfair.

          5. He is a cofounder of the Association pour l'autobiographie et le patrimoine autobiographique (Association for Autobiography and Autobiographical Heritage) created in Paris in 1992.

          As Lejeune notes in The Practice of the Private Journal, "the diary is a social outcast, of no fixed theoretical address," a problematic profile that has caused one of the most widely practiced autobiographical forms to be largely ignored or misrepresented.

          Lejeune’s scholarship has