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J'ai peu de popularité. Pourquoi? Parce que j'ai subordonné la question des intérêts à la question de l'âme. […] Point d'école. Pourquoi? Parce que je n'ai pas exagéré l'importance des formules, parce que je n'ai voulu asservir aucun esprit, mais au contraire les affranchir tous, leur donner la force vivante qui fait juger et trouver, développer les facultés d'invention. […] Une foule d'hommes ébranlés m'ont dit ou écrit en sortant du Collège de France: ‘Nous recommençons de croire à la vie. Nous n'avons rien appris chez vous. Seulement notre âme, absente, est rentrée en nous’.
Jules Michelet, Cours au Collège de France, 1851À l'issue de [l]a leçon inaugurale [de Barthes] au Collège de France, […] une jeune fille inconnue a bondi sur moi avec véhémence, avec colère: ‘Qu'admirez-vous là-dedans? D'un bout à l'autre il n'a rien dit!’ Ce n'était pas tout à fait exact, il avait dit sans cesse mais en évitant que cela se fige en un quelque chose: selon cette méthode qu'il mettait au point depuis de longues années, il s'était retiré de ce qu'il disait, au fur et à mesure.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, ‘Le parti de Roland Barthes’, 1981On 14 March 1976, Roland Barthes was elected to the ‘chaire de sémiologie littéraire’ at the Collège de France. Acceptance into the Collège comes via the approval of one's peers and (nominally) of the Institut de France. The fact that Barthes was elected by the professorial body of the Collège de France by a majority of only one vote illustrates perfectly a tension in the Collège itself between conservative and slightly more radical values: Barthes was, for many, a more controversial choice than his competitor for the chair, the semiologist Claude Bremond. His ‘présentateur’, Michel Foucault, represented the more nonconformist pole of the establishment, having acceded to the Collège de France in 1970. Claude Lévi-Strauss was elected in 1959.
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