Marie-Madeleine Gauthier (25 April 1920 – 20 May 1998) was a
French
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Arts and media
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medieval
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art historian and author.
Gauthier was born in
Langon
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* Langon, Ille-et-Vilaine, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, France
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,
Gironde
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France
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in 1920. She studied at the University in
Bordeaux
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where she became interested in medieval enamel in which she became a world expert. She lived in the US from 1964-1967. She died in
Langon
Langon may refer to:
* Langon, Gironde, a commune in the Gironde department, France
* Langon, Ille-et-Vilaine, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, France
* Langon, Loir-et-Cher, a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, France
* Långön, ...
in 1998.
Obituary - ''The Independent'', 27 August 1998
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Works
* ''Highways of the Faith - relics and reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela'', Wellfleet Press, 1983
References
1920 births
1998 deaths
French art historians
French medievalists
French women medievalists
20th-century French historians
French women art historians
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
20th-century French women writers
French expatriates in the United States
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