Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university, normalian, Etruscan scholar and

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ist, professor of Latin language and literature at the

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. Married to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins, founder in 1952, of the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, he was the father of , politician and historian, Catherine Peyrou and Edith Heurgon who continued the "Colloques of Cerisy". A member of the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...

(1928–1930), he was elected a member of the

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in 1969.

Biography

Coming from a family of Parisian jewelers, he studied at the

lycée Condorcet The Lycée Condorcet () is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's 9th arrondissement. It is one of the four oldest high schools in Paris and also one of the most prestigious. Since its inception, var ...

, where he met poet

Jean Tardieu Jean Tardieu (born in Saint-Germain-de-Joux, Ain, 1 November 1903, died in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, 27 January 1995) was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author. Life and career He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publ ...

, with whom he would correspond for twenty years. Entered in the

École normale supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

in 1923, he was received at the first rank of the agrégation de lettres. In 1926, he married the daughter of his former professor in khâgne, Paul Desjardins, who would organize at the abbaye de Pontigny the "", literary meetings attended, among others, by

André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism ...

, Bernard Groethuysen and Roger Martin du Gard.Correspondance de Jean Tardieu et Jacques Heurgon
, fondation La Poste

Publications

* ''Recherches sur l'histoire, la religion et la civilisation de Capoue préromaine des origines à la deuxième guerre punique'' (« Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome », 154), Paris, de Boccard, 1942, 483 p. (State thesis). * ''Rome et la Méditerranée occidentale jusqu'aux guerres puniques'', Nouvelle Clio, PUF, 3rd edition 1993
''La Vie quotidienne des Étrusques''
Hachette, 1961 and 1989, 361 pages * ''Le Trésor de Ténès'', 86 pages, 1958, reprint Flammarion, 1992 *
Le ciel a eu le temps de changer
', correspondence 1922-1944 de Jacques Heurgon with

, 272 pages, 2004,

References

External links

Jacques Heurgon
on Encyclopedia Universalis
Jacques Heurgon
on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

on the site of ''

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''Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jacques Heurgon, académicien ordinaire''
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Heurgon, Jacques Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French scholars of Roman history 20th-century French historians French Latinists Linguists of Etruscan Lycée Condorcet alumni École Normale Supérieure alumni Writers from Paris 1903 births 1995 deaths Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Academic staff of the University of Paris