Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909,

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Career

In 1929, she obtained a '' baccalauréat universitaire ès lettres'' (BA) at the

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. She moved to Paris where she entered the

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which she left in 1933 with a diploma as an archivist-paleographer. In 1935, she was awarded a doctorate in medieval history from the Sorbonne. Having grown up in an impoverished family, she worked in various professions (including as a teacher, a coach, and an archivist) while completing her university studies and while waiting for a post in a museum. She later became curator at the

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, in 1947, at the Museum of the History of France in 1949, at the

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, and at the Centre of Joan of Arc (which she had founded in 1974 at the request of

André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( ; ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (''Man's Fate'') (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed ...

). She is known for writing extensively about

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and the social standing of women in the

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(500 - 1500), ''e.g''., on

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who in 1099 founded the double monastery - one with nuns, and one with monks - of

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, where he put a nun, Petronille de Chemillé, who was 22 years of age, in charge. She primarily did the work of a medieval historian, though she also published several popular works. She was a founding member of the learned society, the Académie du Morvan, in 1967. She is the aunt of Georges Pernoud, the presenter of the TV series ''

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''.

Awards

She received the Grand Prize of the City of Paris in 1978 and in 1997 the

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

awarded her for her lifetime's work.

Bibliography

* ''Essai sur l'histoire du port de Marseille des origines à la fin du XIII^e'', doctoral thesis presented to the Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Paris, 1935 * ''L'Unité française'', PUF, 1944 * ''Lumière du Moyen Âge'', Grasset, 1944 * ''Les villes marchandes aux XIVe et XVe siècles, impérialisme et capitalisme au Moyen-âge'', La Table Ronde, 1948 * ''Vie et mort de Jeanne d'Arc; les témoignages du procès de réhabilitation 1450-1456'', Hachette, 1953 * ''Les grandes époques de l'art en Occident'', Ed. du Chêne, 1954 * ''Les Gaulois'', Seuil, 1957 * ''Les Croisés, Hachette'', 1959 * ''Un Chef d'État, Saint Louis de France'', Gabalda et cie, 1960 * ''Histoire de la bourgeoisie en France; I. Des origines aux temps modernes; II. Les temps modernes'', Seuil, 1960–1962 * ''Les Croisades'', Julliard, 1960 * ''Histoire du peuple français ; I. Des origines au moyen âge''; , Nouvelle Librairie de France, 1961 (Other volumes :''II. De Jeanne d'Arc à Louis XIV''; ''III. De la régence à 1848''; ''IV. De 1848 à nos jours'' are by three other authors) * ''Croyants et incroyants d'aujourd'hui'', Cerf, 1962 * ''Jeanne d'Arc par elle-même et par ses témoins'', Seuil, 1962 * ''Notre Dame de Paris'', La Documentation française, 1963 * ''L'histoire des rois mages : selon l'Évangile de saint Matthieu'', Trianon, 1964 * ''La Formation de la France'', PUF, 1966 * ''Aliénor d'Aquitaine'', Albin Michel, 1966 * ''Héloïse et Abélard'', Albin Michel, 1967 * ''8 mai 1429, la libération d'Orléans'', Gallimard, 1969 * ''L'histoire racontée à mes neveux'', Stock, 1969 illustrated by René Follet * ''Jeanne devant les Cauchons'', Seuil, 1970 * ''Beauté du Moyen Âge'', Gautier Languereau, 1971 * ''La Reine Blanche'', Albin Michel, 1972 * ''Les Templiers'', PUF, col. Que sais-je?, 1974 * ''Pour en finir avec le Moyen Âge'', Seuil, 1977 * ''Les Hommes de la Croisade'', Tallandier, 1977 * ''La Femme au temps des cathédrales'', Stock, 1980 * ''Sources de l'art roman'' (avec Madeleine Pernoud), Berg international, 1980 * ''Jeanne d'Arc'' (avec Madeleine Pernoud), Seuil, 1981 * ''Christine de Pisan'', Calmann-Lévy, 1982 * ''Le Tour de France médiéval : l'histoire buissonnière'' (avec Georges Pernoud), Stock, 1982 * ''La Plume et le parchemin'', Denoël, 1983 * ''Jeanne et Thérèse'', Seuil, 1984 * ''Les Saints au Moyen Âge : la sainteté d'hier est-elle pour aujourd'hui ?'', Plon, 1984 * ''Saint Louis et le crépuscule de la féodalité'', A. Michel, coll. L'homme et l'événement, 1985 * ''Le Moyen Âge pour quoi faire ?'' (with Raymond Delatouche and

Jean Gimpel Jean Gimpel (10 October 1918 – 15 June 1996) was a French historian and medievalist. Gimpel was one of three sons of a French father, the art dealer René Gimpel, and an English mother, Florence, the youngest sister of Lord Duveen. Gimpel was ...

). Stock, 1986. * ''Isambour : la reine captive'', Stock, 1987 * ''Richard Cœur de Lion'', Fayard (1988), republished by Le Grand Livre du Mois, 1995 * ''Jeanne d'Arc et la guerre de Cent ans'', Denoël, 1990 * ''La Femme au temps des croisades'', Stock, 1990 * ''La Vierge et les saints au Moyen âge'', C. de Bartillat, coll. Esprits, 1991 * ''La spiritualité de Jeanne d'Arc'', Mame, 1992 * ''Villa Paradis : souvenirs'', Stock, 1992 * ''Hildegarde de Bingen : conscience inspirée du XII^e'', le Grand livre du mois, 1994 * ''J'ai nom Jeanne la Pucelle'', coll.

Découvertes Gallimard (, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an Collection (publishing), editorial collection of Book illustration, illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in Pocket edition, ...

(no. 198), Paris: Gallimard, 1994 * ''Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc, reconquête de la France'', Éd. du Rocher-J.-P. Bertrand, 1995 * ''Les Templiers, chevaliers du Christ'', coll.

(no. 260), Paris: Gallimard, 1995, reprint 2009 * ''Celui par qui la Gaule devint chrétienne'', Gallimard jeunesse, 1996 * ''Jardins de monastères'', Actes Sud, 1996 * ''Martin de Tours'', Bayard-Centurion, 1996 * ''Saint Jérôme : père de la Bible'' (with Madeleine Pernoud), Éd. du Rocher, 1996 * ''Jeanne d'Arc, Napoléon : le paradoxe du biographe'', Éd. du Rocher, 1997 * ''Histoire et lumière'', Éd. du Cerf, 1998 * ''Visages de femmes au Moyen Âge'', Zodiaque, 1998

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