Josèphe Jacquiot

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Josèphe Jacquiot
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Born(1910-04-24)24 April 1910
Loches, France
Died2 August 1995(1995-08-02) (aged 85)
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France
Resting place Perrusson
MonumentsMusée municipal Josèphe Jacquiot
EducationÉcole du Louvre
Occupation(s)Numismatist, politician

Josèphe Jacquiot (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛfʒakio] ; 24 April 1910 – 2 August 1995) was a French Resistance fighter, numismatist, and politician. Noted for her work on the medals of Louis XIV and Louis XV, she was also the founder of the first co-educational school in the Île-de-France and a museum in her home of Montgeron; she also served as mayor of the town. The museum was later renamed in her honour as Musée Josèphe Jacquiot.

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Biography

Jacquiot was born on 24 April 1910 in Loches. [1] Her family moved to Montgeron after the death of her father in 1938. [2] She graduated from higher education in history and geography from the École du Louvre. [1] During the Second World War she joined the local Resistance. [2]

In May 1945 Jacquiot was elected mayor of Montgeron. [3] A result of this election meant she became one of the first female mayors in France. [3] Her tenure as mayor lasted for two years, during which time she requisitioned housing for refugees and created free medical care for some of the poorest people in the town. [2] She lost the 1947 election. [2] In 1949 she founded the first school in the Île-de-France area that was also co-educational. [2]

After she lost the mayoral election, she continued her studies and forged a career in numismatics, becoming a renowned authority on medals. [2] In 1959 she was appointed as a curator at the Cabinet des médailles in Paris. [1] [2] [4] She was also a lecturer at the École du Louvre and the Monnaie de Paris. [2] She drew on her expertise to study Claude François Menestrier's 1691 work on medals and jetons, and its subsequent editions. [5] She was an expert on the medals of Louis XIV, as well as satirical medals of the era. [6] Her work on the catalogue of medals of Louis XV was praised by Mark P. Jones as providing "enlightening notes, and detailed bibliographies". [7]

She was also the founder of the Montgeron History Society, and its first president. [2] She also founded the municipal museum of Montgeron and became its curator in 1993. [2] [8] Jacquiot died on 2 August 1995; she is buried in Perrusson. [9]

Legacy

Jacquiot bequeathed her medal collection to Montgeron's museum, which was subsequently renamed in her honour as Musée Josèphe Jacquiot. [2] As of 2024, Jacquiot's work as a numismatist continued to influence the field. [9]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jacquiot, Josèphe (1910–1995). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 à 19h21, Par Cécile Chevallier Le 19 avril 2018 (19 April 2018). "SERIE. Ces Essonniennes ont du talent : Josèphe Jacquiot, première femme maire de Montgeron". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 24 October 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. 1 2 Moghaddam, Fiona (2 March 2020). "En 1945, les premières femmes élues maires en France". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Desmas, Anne-Lise; Kopp, Édouard; Scherf, Guilhem; Trey, Juliette (10 January 2017). Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment. Getty Publications. ISBN   978-1-60606-506-8.
  5. ↑ Saunders, Alison M.; Davidson, Peter (2005). Visual Words and Verbal Pictures: Essays in Honour of Michael Bath. Librairie Droz. ISBN   978-0-85261-814-1.
  6. ↑ Himelfarb, H. (1996). Josephe Jacquiot. Cahiers Saint-Simon , 24 (1), 134–135.
  7. ↑ Jones, Mark P. (1977). "Review of Louis XV. Un moment de perfection de l'art Français. Hotel de la Monnaie". The Numismatic Chronicle (1966–). 17 (137): 246–247. ISSN   0078-2696. JSTOR   42666614.
  8. ↑ "D'une collection d'art égyptien à la forêt de Sénart… une agréable balade à Montgeron, dans l'Essonne". www.telerama.fr (in French). 24 May 2025. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  9. 1 2 "Femmes d'exception du Sud Touraine (6/8). Josèphe Jacquiot, de la rue Porte- Poitevine à la Bibliothèque nationale". renaissancelochoise.com (in French). 19 August 2024. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  10. ↑ Jacquiot, Josèphe (1972). "La littérature et les médailles". Cahiers de l'AIEF. 24 (1): 201–213. doi:10.3406/caief.1972.1010.
  11. ↑ Jacquiot, Josèphe (1969). "Le talisman offert à Louis XIV et le carré magique au XVIIe siècle". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 113 (1): 18–34. doi:10.3406/crai.1969.12328.
  12. ↑ Jacquiot, Josèphe (1986). "La valeur d'information des médailles frappées en France et à l'Étranger, à l'occasion, ou à la suite de l'Édit de Fontainebleau". Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français (1903–). 132: 63–78. ISSN   0037-9050. JSTOR   24296643.
  13. ↑ Jacquiot, Josèphe (1971). "Dessins inédits d'Etienne Delaune pour des médailles et pour des jetons, conservés à l'Ashmolean Museum d'Oxford (résumé)". Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France. 1969 (1): 271–272. doi:10.3406/bsnaf.1971.2229.
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