Jacques Heurgon
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Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university, normalian, Etruscan scholar and Latinist, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne. Married to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins, founder in 1952, of the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, he was the father of {{Interlanguage link multi|Marc Heurgon|fr}}, politician and historian, Catherine Peyrou and Edith Heurgon who continued the "Colloques of Cerisy".
A member of the École française de Rome (1928–1930), he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1969.
Biography
Coming from a family of Parisian jewelers, he studied at the lycée Condorcet, where he met poet Jean Tardieu, with whom he would correspond for twenty years. Entered in the École normale supérieure in 1923, he was received at the first rank of the agrégation de lettres. In 1926, he married the daughter of his former professor in khâgne, Paul Desjardins, who would organize at the abbaye de Pontigny the "{{Interlanguage link multi|Décades de Pontigny|fr}}", literary meetings attended, among others, by André Gide, Bernard Groethuysen and Roger Martin du Gard.[http://www.fondationlaposte.org/article.php3?id_article=684 Correspondance de Jean Tardieu et Jacques Heurgon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051651/http://www.fondationlaposte.org/article.php3?id_article=684 |date=2016-03-04 }}, fondation La Poste
Publications
- Recherches sur l'histoire, la religion et la civilisation de Capoue préromaine des origines à la deuxième guerre punique (« Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome », 154), Paris, de Boccard, 1942, 483 p. (State thesis).
- Rome et la Méditerranée occidentale jusqu'aux guerres puniques, Nouvelle Clio, PUF, 3rd edition 1993 {{ISBN|2130457010}}
- [http://www.persee.fr/doc/ahess_0395-2649_1963_num_18_1_420967_t1_0168_0000_1 La Vie quotidienne des Étrusques], Hachette, 1961 and 1989, 361 pages {{ISBN|9782010150746}}
- Le Trésor de Ténès, 86 pages, 1958, reprint Flammarion, 1992 {{ISBN|2082103943}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051651/http://www.fondationlaposte.org/article.php3?id_article=684 Le ciel a eu le temps de changer], correspondence 1922-1944 de Jacques Heurgon with Jean Tardieu, 272 pages, 2004, {{ISBN|2908295741}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/jacques-heurgon/ Jacques Heurgon] on Encyclopedia Universalis
- [http://www.aibl.fr/membres/academiciens-depuis-1663/article/heurgon-jacques Jacques Heurgon] on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- [https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/obituary-professor-jacques-heurgon-1524101.html Obituary] on the site of the Independent
- [http://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1995_num_139_4_15531 Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jacques Heurgon, académicien ordinaire] on Persée
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