Michel de Boüard , born the August 5th 1909 and dead the April 28th 1989, with Épron (Apple-brandy), is a Historien and Archéologue French, member of the Institut and senior of the Faculty of Arts of Caen.

Biography

After the School of the charters, he becomes member of the French École of Rome between 1930 and 1932. He is named professor of history to the Université of Caen in 1940. Resisting and member of the French Communist party of 1942 1960, it is off-set with Mauthausen.

Of return in France after the end of the Second world war, it takes part in the Reconstruction of Caen while in particular directing the archaeological excavations of the Château of Caen of 1949 with 1966. As of this time, he affirms himself like the leader of the Archéologie Médiévale. It is a question of using the stratigraphic method on sites of medieval time, period then completely neglected by the archeologists. Concentrating his efforts on “not-monumental” sites, i.e. whose no vestige exceeds ground, Michel de Boüard thus creates a new form of archeology which would not be a history of art but an essential tool for better including/understanding the history of the medieval man and his habitat. Its theses will contribute to the development of the preventive Archéologie in France during the Années 1970.

It founds in 1946 the Musée of Normandy within the castle and, in 1955, the archaeological Research center and history medieval with the Université of Caen. He was Commandeur of the Légion of honor. A plate in its honor was affixed with the foot of the keep of the castle of Caen, by the town of Caen.

In the years 1980, it is in the middle of a polemic when it starts to doubt the existence of the Gas chambers with the camp of Mauthausen after the defense of the thesis of the historian revisionist Henri Roques in 1985, existence which it however ensured throughout his life, in particular in its book of 1954 Mauthausen .

Publications

• France and Italy at the time of the great schism of Occident , Paris, E. of Boccard, 1936
• Mauthausen , Paris, university Presses of France, 1954
• Caen, admirable city , Caen, Publica, 1963
• the Viking S , Paris, Hatier, 1968
• History of the Normandy , Toulouse, Privat, 1970
• Documents of the history of Normandy , Toulouse, Privat, 1972
• Handbook of medieval archeology: excavation with the history , Paris, Company of edition of higher education, 1975
• the Craft industry in Normandy , Wettolsheim, Editions Mars and Mercury, 1978
• the Castle of Caen , Caen, CRAHM, 1979
• William the Conqueror , Paris, Beech, 1984,

Distinctions

• Commander of the Legion of honor.
• 1973 - Member of the Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities

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