Jean Favier

Jean Favier, born in Paris on 2 April 1932 is a historian medievalist French.

Biography

Student of the Ecole des Chartes , he wrote a thesis entitled An adviser to Philip the Fair: Enguerran de Marigny and leaves paleographer archivist in 1956. He then enlisted the aggregation of history and became a member of the French School in Rome.

It is first Conservative National Archives of 1958 to 1961 before being appointed professor at Orleans High School for the year 1961-1962. However, he quickly obtained a position as a researcher at CNRS , he held from 1962 to 1964.

He began an academic career as lecturer at the University of Rennes (1964-1966), professor at the University of Rouen (1966-1969), then in Paris as director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1965-1997) and professor at the University of Paris Sorbonne from 1969 to 1997.

Alongside his career as a teacher and researcher, he held positions in the administration of culture, including Chief becoming Archives of France and director of the National Archives in 1975 to 1994 , and from 1994 to 1997 , Chairman of the National Library of France.

He is a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters since 1985 and president of the French Commission for UNESCO. He was also director of the Revue historique (1973-1997).

From 1992 to 1995 he headed for Fayard a History of France in six volumes. He writes himself the second volume entitled Time principalities. One thousand to 1515.

Jean Favier is curator of the Chateau de Langeais , in the Loire Valley. There is adviser to the Foundation for political innovation.

It is also a radio personality, led especially on France Inter issuance Question for History.

He was married to Lucie Favier.

Works

• "Introitus and exitus" under Clement VII and Benedict XIII ... Istituto di paleografia dell 'Universit di Roma, Rome, 1957.
• The Archives, PUF (coll. Que sais-je? ), Paris, 1959.
• An adviser to Philippe le Bel: de Marigny Enguerran, PUF, Paris, 1963.
• The papal finances at the time of the Great Western Schism, 1378-1409, De Boccard, Paris, 1966.
• Marco Polo to Christopher Columbus, Larousse Editions, Paris, 1968.
• The Taxpayers Paris at the end of the Hundred Years War, the tax rolls from 1421, 1423 and 1438, Droz, Paris / Geneva, 1970.
• Paris in the fifteenth ^century, Diffusion Hachette, Paris, 1974.
• The French register of companies: 1449-1467, Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1975.
• Philippe le Bel, Editions Fayard, Paris, 1978.
• The Hundred Years War , Editions Fayard, Paris 1980. Gobert Grand Prix 1981.
• Francois Villon, Editions Fayard, Paris, 1982.
• A History of Normandy, western France, Rennes, 1986.
• Gold and spices: the birth of a businessman in the Middle Ages, Editions Fayard, Paris, 1987.
• National Archives: fifteen centuries of history, Nathan, Paris, 1988.
• The Universe of Chartres, Editions Bordas, Paris, 1988.
• The Great Discoveries: Alexander Magellan, Editions Fayard, Paris, 1991.
• Time principalities, Editions Fayard, Paris, 1992, Volume 2 of his History of France.
• Dictionary of medieval France, Editions Fayard, Paris, 1993.
• Feudal France, the Great Book of the Month, Paris, 1995.
• The birth of the State, the Great Book of the Month, Paris, 1995.
• Paris, Two Thousand Years of History, Book Arthme Fayard, Paris, 1997.
• Charlemagne Librairie Arthme Fayard, Paris, 1999.
• Louis XI , Editions Fayard, Paris, 2001.
• The Plantagenets: origins and fate of an empire: the eleventh-fourteenth centuries, Editions Fayard, Paris, 2004.
• The Popes of Avignon, Editions Fayard, Paris, 2006.
• The King Rene , Editions Fayard, 2008 ( ISBN 9782213634807 )
• Saint Onofrio one after the war in the shadow of a steeple Paris, Editions Fayard, 2009.
• Pierre Cauchon or masters in turmoil, Editions Fayard, 2010 ( ISBN 9782213642611 )

Decorations

• Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor (July 14, 2010)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit
• Commander of the Order of Academic Palms
• Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters
• Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
• Commander of the Order of the Oak Crown (Luxembourg)

External Links

• Biographical information on the site of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters
• Read the memory of Jean Favier, "The day I rekindled the flame of the Unknown Soldier"

• Portal History

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