Marie François Xavier Henry Bouchot (26 September 1849, Beure - 10 October 1906,

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Born to a modest family, his father died when he was only ten, and they moved to

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. He served in the Franco-Prussian War, with the

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. When he was twenty-five, he became a student at the

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, where he obtained a diploma as a Archivist-paleographer in 1878, with his thesis on the history of

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. In 1883, he founded the ''Revue Franc-comtoise'', and began working for the at the

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, under the direction of

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; helping to edit a catalogue, ''Les Portraits aux crayons des XVIe et XVIIe siècles''. He became an assistant librarian in 1885, and wrote several studies of old prints. That same year, he married Claire Chevalier. They had a son, Jean (1886-1932), a conservator at the Musée de Besançon, and a daughter, , a professor at the

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and wife of the sculptor,

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. In 1898, he succeeded

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as conservator at the Département des Estampes. Two years later, he was named a Knight in the

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,Documentation
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for his role in organizing the Exposition Universelle. Then, in 1904, he was elected to the

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, where he took Seat #10 in the "Unattached" section. Henri Bouchot par Paul Dujardin

His death came suddenly. A street in Beure has been named after him. A bust on a pedestal, by

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, was dedicated in Besançon in 1907. in a square that bears his name.

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