Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis
Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis (12 February 1862 – 31 October 1923) was a French medievalist and archeologist. Following his studies at the ''Lycée Condorcet'', in 1881 he entered the École Nationale des Chartes, where he wrote a thesis on religious architecture in the former Diocese of Soissons in the 11th and 12th centuries. During his studies, he worked at the Mazarine Library and apprenticed with Alphonse Simil, an architect in the Commission des Monuments historiques. In 1894, he became assistant in medieval archaeology at the ''École Nationale des Chartes''. In 1911 he became the professor. In 1911, he became president of the ''Société française d’archéologie'' and, in 1916, of the ''Société nationale des antiquaires''. He founded the ''Société des amis de la cathédrale de Reims'' to help restore the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims Notre-Dame de Reims (; ; meaning "Our Lady of Reims"), known in English as Reims Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in the French c ...
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Caen (; ; ) is a commune inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Comparateur de territoire
, INSEE, retrieved 20 June 2022. making Caen the second largest urban area in and the 19th largest in France. It is also the third largest commune in all of Normandy after