Roger Grand
Roger Grand | |
|---|---|
 Roger Grand in 1928. | |
| Senator for Morbihan | |
| In office 28 August 1927 – 9 January 1933 | |
| Preceded by | Ernest Lamy |
| National Council Member | |
| In office 22 January 1941 – 1943 | |
| Member of the Brittany Advisory Committee | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 September 1874 Châtellerault (Vienne, France) |
| Died | 26 May 1962 |
| Political party | UR |
| Alma mater | École nationale des chartes |
| Profession | Archivist Historian Farmer |
Roger Grand was a French legal historian and politician, born in Châtellerault on 3 September 1874 and died in Paris on 26 May 1962.
Biography
[edit]A graduate of the École nationale des chartes, he earned the title of archivist paleographer with a thesis titled Contribution to the History of Land Tenure Systems: The Complant Contract.[1]
After working as a trainee lawyer he worked as an archivist at Seine-et-Oise, Cantal, where he helped establish the Société de la Haute-Auvergne, and then Nantes.[2] Eyesight issues forced him to retire as an archivist and turn to farming.[2]
His eyesight meant that he couldn't fight in the First World War and became an auxiliary, working as an agricultural specialist to keep up crop yields on the home front.[2] In 1919 he became a professor of civil law and canon law at the École nationale des chartes.[2]
While also working as a farmer, he took on union responsibilities as president of the Union nationale des syndicats agricoles[2] between 1934 and 1938. He served as a senator for Morbihan from 1927 to 1933.[2]
He was a disciple of Frédéric Le Play.
The Académie française awarded him the Hercule-Catenacci Prize in 1952 for his work Une race, un château: Anjony, in the Land of Auvergne Mountains.[citation needed]
In 1954, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.[citation needed] His academic sword was crafted by the sculptor Philippe Besnard.
Works
[edit]- The "Paix" of Aurillac: Study and Documents on the History of Municipal Institutions of a Consular Town ( ), Paris, 1945.
- Agriculture in the Middle Ages from the End of the Roman Empire to the 16th century (with contributions from Raymond Delatouche), E. de Boccard, 1950.
- A Race, a Castle, Anjony, Paris, Picard, 1951.
Honors
[edit]- Officer of the Légion d'honneur (7 February 1952)[3]
- Officier of Public Instruction
- Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit
References
[edit]- ^ École des Chartes Website
- ^ a b c d e f "GRAND Roger". Sénat (in French). Archived from the original on 13 November 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Search - Léonore Database". www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
External links
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- 1874 births
- People from Châtellerault
- French archivists
- Legal historians
- 20th-century French historians
- People from Cantal
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Senators of Morbihan
- Members of the National Council of Vichy France
- French senators of the Third Republic
- 1962 deaths
- UNSA leaders
- Recipients of the Legion of Honour