Charles Perrat (14 January 1899, Lyon – 4 July 1976) was a 20th-century French

paleographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

, professor at the

École Nationale des Chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (, literally National School of Charters) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at ...

. An archivist, he was also a member of the

Société des Antiquaires de France The Société des Antiquaires de France (Society of Antiquaries of France) is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Académie celtique (Celtic Academy). It is now based at the Louvre, in the pavil ...

Sources

* Francois (Michel), « Charles Perrat (1899-1976) », ''Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes'', 136 (1978), p. 449-45
online
* François (Martine), « PERRAT Charles Claude Jacques », notice de l'annuaire du CTH
online

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Charles Perrat
on data.bnf.fr Academic staff of the École Nationale des Chartes French archivists French palaeographers Scientists from Lyon 1899 births 1976 deaths {{France-historian-stub