Marc Venard (11 July 1929 – 11 November 2014) was a French historian. A student at the

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, he was agrégé and doctor in history and a specialist of religious history of the 16th century. He was ''

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'' professor of modern history at the Universities of Rouen and

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and member of the

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Publications

*1957: ''Bourgeois et paysans au XVIIe siècle. Recherche sur le rôle des bourgeois parisiens dans la vie agricole au sud de Paris au XVIIe siècle'', Paris, SEVPEN *1967: ''Le Monde et son histoire'', tomes V et VI, Paris, Bordas-Laffont *1977–1985: ''Répertoire des Visites pastorales de la France. Première série : anciens diocèses (jusqu’en 1790)'', Paris, éd. du CNRS, 4 vol. (in collaboration with D. Julia). Corrections and Compléments, Paris, SHRF, 2006 *1993: ''Réforme protestante, Réforme catholique dans la province d’Avignon, XVIe'', Paris,

Éditions du Cerf ''Éditions du Cerf'' ( French: "Editions of the Deer") is a French publishing house specializing in religious books. It was founded in 1929, and operated by the Dominican Order. The name is a reference to Psalm 42 (41): As the hart pantet ...

*1998
''La religion dans la France moderne''
(with Anne Bonzon), Paris,

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*Direction et rédaction partielle de ''l’Histoire du Christianisme'', Paris, Desclée : **1994: volume 7, De la réforme à la Réformation (1450–1530) **1992: volume 8, Le temps des Confessions (1530–1620/40) **1997: volume 9, L’Âge de raison (1620/40–1750), *2000: ''Le Catholicisme à l’épreuve dans la France du XVIe'', Paris, éd. du Cerf (collection of articles) (prix Gossier of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen) *2010: ''Les Confréries dans la ville de Rouen à l’époque moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles'', Rouen, Société de l’histoire de Normandie, * Contributions to the ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'' (article "France, XVIe" and some others) ; to the ''Histoire générale de l’enseignement et de l’éducation en France'', Paris, Nouvelle Librairie de France, volume 2, 1981 ; reprint 2003 ; and to the ''Histoire de la France religieuse'', Paris, éd. du Seuil, volume 2, 1988 ; to ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation'', New York et Oxford, 1996 (art. "Assembly of Clergy" and "France") * Au miroir de Clio-28.09.2014, with Marc Venard (une histoire de la Réforme catholique) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMYH7yavkQ

External links

Obituary
on Le Monde
Marc Venard (1929-2014)

on the site of the Sorbonne

on Cairn {{DEFAULTSORT:Venard, Marc 1929 births People from Versailles 2014 deaths École Normale Supérieure alumni 20th-century French historians