André Bossuat
André Bossuat (30 December 1892 – 23 October 1967) was a French history and geography teacher and director of research at the CNRS.
Biography
André Bossuat was born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Auguste Bossuat, an employee, and Mélanie Bastouch. The family's address at the time was 75, Boulevard de Magenta.
Born into a family from Saint-Martin-sur-Nohain in the Nièvre region, he remained attached to the land of his ancestors throughout his life. In 1939, he bought a house in Cabets, in the commune of Suilly-la-Tour, where he regularly spent his holidays.
An agrégé in history and geography, he obtained his doctorate in literature from the Faculty of Letters in Paris in 1936. His main thesis was devoted to Perrinet Gressart and François de Surienne, agents of England, a contribution to the study of relations between England and Burgundy and France during the reign of Charles VII, and his supplementary thesis to Antoine de la Taverne, provost of the Abbey of Saint-Vaast d'Arras. Journal of the Peace of Arras (1435).
He taught at the Lyceums Michelet and Condorcet in Paris and at the Faculté de Lettres in Clermont-Ferrand. Bossuat was a member of the Society of the History of France.
André Bossuat died in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.
Private life
He married Thérèse Vivier on 13 June 1925 in Paris. He was the brother of Robert Bossuat, a Romance philologist and member of the Institute.
Works
- "Un épisode de l’histoire de Brèves au xve siècle," Bulletin de la Société nivernaise des lettres, sciences et arts, Vol. XXVII (1924; with Robert Bossuat)
- Perrinet Gressart et François de Surienne, agents de l'Angleterre. Contribution à l'étude des relations de l'Angleterre et de la Bourgogne avec la France sous le règne de Charles VII (1936)
- Visages de l'Auvergne (1943; 1964; with Henri Pourrat, Lucien Gachon, Henri Charlier & Alexandre Vialatte)
- Les chroniqueurs français du Moyen Âge (1952)
- Le bailliage royal de Montferrand (1957; 1968)
- Le Moyen Âge, le monde de la fin du Xe à la fin du XVe siècle (1963; with Jean Devisse)
- Jeanne d'Arc (1968; Que sais-je? collection)
References
- Fournier, Gabriel (1968). "André Bossuat, professeur d'histoire du Moyen Âge et historien de l'Auvergne", Revue d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, Vol. LXXXII, No. 2, pp. 85–94.
- Fournier, Gabriel (1968). "André Bossuat, historien du xve siècle français", Cahiers d'histoire, pp. 267–84.
- Trénard, Louis (1969). "Un historien du xve siècle français: André Bossuat," Revue du Nord, Lille, Université de Lille—Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines, Vol. LI, No. 200, pp. 156–57.
