René Souriac (born 1941 in

Saint-Frajou Saint-Frajou (; oc, Sent Frajó) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. The 20th-century historian René Souriac René Souriac (born 1941 in Saint-Frajou, Haute-Garonne) is a French scholar, a specialist of the ...

Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's ...

) is a French scholar, a specialist of the history of

Comminges The Comminges (; Occitan/ Gascon: ''Comenge'') is an ancient region of southern France in the foothills of the Pyrenees, corresponding closely to the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens in the department of Haute-Garonne. This natural region is norma ...

. After studying history at

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

, René Souriac passed his agrégation of history in 1966, and joined the Université Toulouse le Mirail in 1969. A Doctor of Third Cycle in 1973, Doctor of State in 1987 on a subject concerning an example of administrative decentralization in the XVIth, the country of Comminges. Professor of the universities in 1989, he was interested in the cultural evolutions of European societies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hence his interest in the

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

at that time. Since 1999, he is the president of the research company of Comminges and the ' and the Central Pyrénées.

Publications

*1978: ''Le comté de Comminges au milieu du XVI° Siècle'', Toulouse,

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

*1996: ''Histoire de France 1750–1995'', Toulouse, Presses Universitaires Mirail, 2 volumes. *2002: ''Les mots de la Renaissance'', Toulouse, Presses Universitaires Mirail *2008: ''Les affrontements religieux en Europe, du début du XVIe au milieu du XVIIe'', in collaboration with

Pierre-Jean Souriac Pierre-Jean Souriac is a contemporary French historian, a Lecturer in Modern History at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. Biography Souriac is a specialist of history of religions, and more precisely religious conflicts in the 16th century and thei ...

, Paris,

External links

René Souriac
on Thèses.fr

on CAIRN

{{DEFAULTSORT:Souriac, Rene French historians of religion 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians Academic staff of the University of Toulouse People from Haute-Garonne 1941 births Living people