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Jean Gagé (1 June 1902 – 4 May 1986) was a French historian who specialised in
ancient Roman In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...
history. From 1921 to 1924, Jean Gagé was a student at the
École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
in Paris and obtained his agrégation de lettres. He was a member of the École française de Rome from 1925 until 1928, years in which he participated in excavations in Algeria. He was sent to a teaching assignment in São Paulo, where he remained during World War II. He returned to France in 1945 and settled in Strasbourg. In 1955, he defended his thesis at the Sorbonne, then was appointed a professor at the Collège de France, succeeding André Piganiol as the chair of Roman civilisation, where he taught until 1972.


Selected works

*1964: ''Les Classes sociales dans l'Empire romain'' - Payot *1965: ''La Montée des Perses Sassanides et l'heure de Palmyre'' -
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*1976: ''La Chute des Tarquins et les débuts de la République romaine'' - Payot


External links


Jean Gagé
on the site of the Académie Française
Biography

''Matronalla. Essai sur les dévotions et les organisations culturelles des femmes dans l'ancienne Rome'' by Jean Gagé
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Gage, Jean Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) 20th-century French historians French scholars of Roman history Academic staff of the Collège de France École Normale Supérieure alumni 1902 births 1986 deaths