A Short Biography of Maurice Duverger
Résumé
Maurice Duverger is indisputably the best-known and most often quoted French political scientist in the literature. This brief biographical piece traces the successive steps of his career and the various faces of his talents. As a young man, he hesitated between four professions involving speech: writer, journalist, teacher or lawyer. Eventually, he embraced all of these activities, becoming not only one of the main figures and founding fathers of contemporary European political science, but also a publicist actively engaged in many public debates in the medias as well as in politics.