Robert Triger

Robert Triger (Mans 1856 - Mans January 15th 1927), French historian. He was President of the historical and archaeological Société of Maine, general inspector of the French company of archeology, correspondent of the Société of the antique dealers of France. Commander about St-Gregoire-the-Large, it was also city council man Soft-the-Jolly where it had a manor and a house. He made build a vault in the cemetery of Soft, where he rests.

Biography

Historian of Maine, this doctor in right published very many studies, of a military nature, religious, or bearing on the rich person inheritance of his province and the very diverse subjects of which Holy-Suzanne (Mayenne), its history and its fortifications , 1907, History of Soft-the-Jolly (the Sarthe), or the Factory of the fabrics of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe , the legend of the Reine Berthe with the Country of the Bercons (area of Fresnay/the Sarthe) etc; Henri Tournouër, in his article " Robert Triger" appeared in the Historical and Archaeological Re-examined of Maine (1928, T.VIII), recalls that in 1923 the general catalog of its publications counts 711 numbers. Following the adoption of the Law of 1905, the historical and archaeological Company of Maine, under the impulse of Robert Triger, required an investigation into the artistic richnesses contained in the religious buildings and into their maintenance. She asked for the maintenance of all these richnesses (statues, stained glasses, woodworks, retables, bells, goldsmithery, martyrdoms…) in their sites. In 1911, the State accepted the maintenance of all the religious buildings, catholics and Protestants: vaults, churches and cathedrals.

A public garden and a street bear the name of Robert Triger to the Mans. The funeral praise which follows, work of H. Tournoüer, is appeared in " Excursion of the Historical and Archaeological Company of the Flowering ash in Maine (August 30th - September 3rd 1926) " , of G. Hubert, Alençonnaise Printing works, Alençon, 1927.

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