Yves Laon Emile Adrien Renouard (17 February 1908 – 15 January 1965) was a

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medieval

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. He was professor at the

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from 1955 until his death. Educated at the ''

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'' in Paris, Renouard passed his ''agrégation'' in history in 1932, then spent five years in Italy, first at the ''

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'', then at the ''

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''. He joined the ''Université de Bordeaux'' in 1937, teaching there (with two interruptions, the first to serve in the French Army during the Second World War; the second on a temporary attachment to the Sorbonne) until 1955. He was the dean of the ''Faculté de lettres'' from 1945. In 1955, he became a professor at the University of Paris, where he remained until his death. Renouard was elected a

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in 1964.

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Corresponding fellows of the British Academy 20th-century French historians 1908 births 1965 deaths French medievalists Historians of France École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of the University of Paris University of Bordeaux alumni {{France-historian-stub