Jacques Heurgon
Born 25 January 1903Paris
Died 24 October 1995(1995-10-24) (aged 92) Occupation Historian Spouse Anne Heurgon-Desjardins
Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university, normalian , Etruscan scholar and Latinist , professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne . Married to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins , founder in 1952, of the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle , he was the father of Marc Heurgon [fr ] , politician and historian, Catherine Peyrou and Edith Heurgon who continued the "Colloques of Cerisy".
A member of the École française de Rome (1928–1930), he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1969.
Biography
Coming from a family of Parisian jewelers, he studied at the lycée Condorcet , where he met poet Jean Tardieu , with whom he would correspond for twenty years. Entered in the École normale supérieure in 1923, he was received at the first rank of the agrégation de lettres . In 1926, he married the daughter of his former professor in khâgne , Paul Desjardins , who would organize at the abbaye de Pontigny the "Décades de Pontigny [fr ] ", literary meetings attended, among others, by André Gide , Bernard Groethuysen and Roger Martin du Gard .[ 1]
Publications
Recherches sur l'histoire, la religion et la civilisation de Capoue préromaine des origines à la deuxième guerre punique (« Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome », 154), Paris, de Boccard, 1942, 483 p. (State thesis).
Rome et la Méditerranée occidentale jusqu'aux guerres puniques , Nouvelle Clio, PUF, 3rd edition 1993 ISBN 2130457010
La Vie quotidienne des Étrusques , Hachette, 1961 and 1989, 361 pages ISBN 9782010150746
Le Trésor de Ténès , 86 pages, 1958, reprint Flammarion, 1992 ISBN 2082103943
Le ciel a eu le temps de changer , correspondence 1922-1944 de Jacques Heurgon with Jean Tardieu , 272 pages, 2004, ISBN 2908295741
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