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Citizenship
  
France

Name
  
Claude Dulong-Sainteny


Spouse
  
Jean Sainteny

Fields
  
History

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Born
  
June 12, 1922 Limoges (France) (
1922-06-12
)

Institutions
  
Versailles classified municipal library

Thesis
  
Ciperis de Vignevaux, chanson de geste du debut du XVe siecle. Etude et edition (1945)

Alma mater
  
Ecole Nationale des Chartes

Notable awards
  
Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques

Claude Dulong-Sainteny or Marguerite-Claude Badalo-Dulong or Claude Dulong, is a French historian born in Limoges on 12 June 1922.

Biography

Graduate of the École Nationale des Chartes in 1945, then graduate in literature, she became librarian in particular in the Versailles classified municipal library.

She first became interested in the Middle Ages, her research focused thereafter on the 17th century.

She married Jean Sainteny and circulated among the gaulliste political circles.

In 1953, she took part in a seminar organized in Harvard by Henry Kissinger. This participation with Jean Sainteny provided a link between the American government and Ho Chi Minh for secret negotiations.

In 1995, she was elected in the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, in place of Jean Laloy.

References

Claude Dulong Wikipedia