Paul Amargier (15 June 1924 – 8 January 2021) was a French historian and

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priest.

Biography

Amargier was a member of the

Dominican Order The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

of Catholic priests while simultaneously working as a researcher and historian under the direction of Professor

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 ...

at the

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. In 1986, he was elected to the

Académie de Marseille The Académie de Marseille, officially the Académie des sciences, lettres et arts de Marseille, is a French learned society based in Marseille. It was founded in 1726 and includes those in the city involved in the arts, letters, and sciences. Hi ...

. Paul Amargier died in

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on 8 January 2021 at the age of 96.

Publications

*''Cartulaire de Trinquetaille'' (1972) *''Dauphine de Puimichel et son entourage au temps de sa vie aptésienne (1345-1360) et André Vauchez'' (1987) *''Un âge d'or du monachisme, Saint-Victor de Marseille (990-1090)'' (1990) *''Münzer H., L’itinéraire de Jérôme Münzer en l’an 1495'' (1991) *''Marseille au Moyen Age'' (1996) *''Marseille au Ve siècle'' (1998) *''Balade dans les vieux quartiers de Marseille'' (2004)

References

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