Lucien Musset (August 26, 1922 – December 15, 2004) was a French historian, specializing in the Duchy of Normandy and the history of the Vikings.
Born in Rennes, Musset served as a Professor of History at the University of Caen.
Musset's major works include:
Les Peuples scandinaves au Moyen Âge (Scandinavian Peoples in the Middle Ages), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1951, 352 p.Les Invasions : les vagues germaniques (Invasions: The Germanic Waves), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965Les Invasions ; le second assaut contre l’Europe chrétienne VIIe−XI siècles (Invasions: The Second Assault Against Christian Europe, 7th – 11th Centuries), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965Nordica et normannica : recueil d’études sur la Scandinavie ancienne et médiévale, les expéditions des Vikings et la fondation de la Normandie (Nordica and Normannica: collection of essays on ancient and medieval Scandinavia, the Viking expeditions and the founding of Normandy), Société des études nordiques, Paris, 1997"Naissance de la Normandie" ("Birth of Normandy"), in Michel de Boüard (editor), Histoire de la Normandie, Privat, Toulouse, 1970, p. 75-129 (ISBN 2-7089-1707-2)