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Émilienne Demougeot

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1994, Montpellier, France


Émilienne Demougeot (1910, Bourges – 19 June 1994, Montpellier) was a 20th-century French historian, a specialist of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity.

Life

She attended elementary and high school in Guadeloupe from 1917 to 1922, then in Tangier in 1925-1926. Once a history teacher, she taught in high school before the war, and then as an assistant at the Sorbonne. She supported her thesis in 1949 and was professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Letters of Montpellier from 1957 to her retirement in 1978. She left a great work especially the monumental Formation de l’Europe et les invasions barbares. She bequeathed her library to the library of ancient history of the Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier.

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Émilienne Demougeot Wikipedia