Edmond Pognon

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Edmond Pognon (born April 4, 1911 in Toul , † September 28, 2007 in Paris ) was a French librarian and mediaevalist .

Edmond Pognon was the son of Brigadier General Félix-Étienne Pognon (1881-1976). He studied at the École nationale des chartes and completed his training in 1934 with a thesis on Jacques de Révigny, jurisconsulte à Orléans, entre 1260 et 1289 . In 1935 he became an employee of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , where he spent his entire professional life (with the exception of the years of the German occupation of France). In November 1944 he moved to the Département des Estampes of the national library, where he became a conservator in 1952 and Conservateur en chef in 1964. In 1976 he retired. In 1968 he became an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and in 1976 Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Edmond Pognon organized a number of exhibitions, including on the Duke of Saint-Simon (1955 and 1976), Manon Lescaut (1963) and Copernicus (1973). As a medievalist and specialist for the period around the year 1000, he published L'An Mille (1947), Hugues Capet, roi de France (1967), La vie quotidienne en l'An Mille (1981), Hugues Capet, qui t'a fait roi? (1987).

literature

  • Jean-Yves Sarazin, Marie-Odile Illiano: Entretiens avec Edmond Pognon réalisés à son domicile les 8 and 11 November 2001. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 2001. 3 CDs, digital reproduction (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Pognon, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French librarian and medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Toul
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2007
Place of death Paris