Peer Frantzen A Translation of Charles Lalo’s “Le premier Congrès d’Esthétique” (The First Congress of Aesthetics) Author of the original text: Charles Lalo Source: Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger, JANVIER A JUIN 1914, T. 77 (JANVIER A JUIN 1914), pp. 73-86 A biographic Victor Basch on Charles Lalo „Charles Lalo was born in Periguaux, Department of the Dordogne, on Feb- ruary 24, 1877. He completed nearly all his studies at the Lyc6e, then con- tinued at the Faculty of Letters of Bordeaux. Made Agre'g in philosophy in 1901, he was professor successively in several provincial universities, then in Paris. The Sorbonne called him for instruction in aesthetics in 1933. He there succeeded Victor Basch, who had established the chair of Aesthetics and Science of Art in 1918. He retired in 1944, but may soon resume instruction in the history of philosophy at the Sorbonne. M. Lalo cooperated with Victor Basch in founding the Association for the Study of the Arts at Paris in 1931. He was its secretary-general from 1931 to 1945, when it was transformed into the present French Society for Aesthetics. Of this, he has been president since 1945. With Raymond Bayer and Etienne Souriau, he directs the Revue d'Esthetique, founded in 1948.“ 1 1 Basch, “Some Personalities in Present French Aesthetics,” 379. 1