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French professor and essayist

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

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.

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