Jean-Maurice Rouquette (1930 – 22 January 2019) was a French historian, specializing in ancient and Romanesque

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

, and curator at the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques.

Biography

Rouquette studied at

Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II o ...

, where he was a student under

Georges Duby Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Franc ...

and Jean-Rémy Palanque. He was particularly interested in

paleochristian The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christian countries, and the Christians with their various denominations, from the 1st century to the present. Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teach ...

and Romanesque Provence studies. He was the curator of Musées et Monuments d’Arles from 1956 to 1996. Rouquette served as president of the

Museon Arlaten Museon Arlaten ("Arles Museum" in Provençal dialect of Occitan) is a museum dedicated to the ethnography of Provence. It is located in Arles, at 29, rue de la République, and it is housed in the 15th century Hôtel particulier Laval-Castellan ...

Autonomous Committee, president of the Académie d'Arles, and designer and chief curator of Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques. He also co-founded the

Rencontres d'Arles The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historia ...

and the

Parc naturel régional de Camargue The Parc naturel régional de Carmargue is a protected area which was designated in 1970 along the shoreline of the Camargue, France. The park protects a wetland environment and an adjacent marine area. The boundaries of the park have been expanded ...

. Rouquette was a member of the Conseil économique, social et environnemental régional - Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (CESER) and was on the Tourism Committee.

Works

*''Trois nouveaux sarcophages chrétiens à Trinquetaille'' (1974) *''Itinéraires romans en Provence'' (1978) *''Provence Romane'' (1982) *''Arles antique, monuments et sites'' (1989) *''Arles antique'' (1990) *''L’Abbaye de Montmajour'' (1999) *''Promenades en Provence Romane'' (2002) *''Arles, histoire, territoires et cultures.'' (2008) *''Le théâtre antique d'Arles'' (2010)

References

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