Olivier Guyotjeannin (born 13 March 1959, Suresnes) is a French medievalist and diplomatist.
Olivier Guyotjeannin graduated as archivist-paleographer from the École Nationale des Chartes in 1981 with a thesis entitled La seigneurie des évêques de Beauvais et de Noyon (Xe-début du XIIIe) which earned him first place of his class. He was a member of the École française de Rome (1983–1986).
First a curator of archives in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, he was later appointed at the Archives nationales in Paris.
In 1989, succeeding Robert-Henri Bautier, he was elected at the chair of institutions, archives and diplomatics of Middle Ages at the École des Chartes where he also taught medieval Latin.
Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France, and the history of libraries and printing.
Jean Favier was a French historian, who specialized in Medieval history. From 1975 to 1994, he was director of the French National Archives. From 1994 to 1997, he was president of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Dominique Varry is a French historian of books and professor at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, part of the University of Lyon.
Maurice Jules Abel Lefranc was a historian of French literature, expert on Rabelais, and the principal advocate of the Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship.
Robert-Henri Bautier was a French historian, archivist, and medievalist. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1986.
Geneviève Hasenohr is a French philologist and prolific scholar of medieval and Renaissance French literature. She has authored or contributed to more than forty books, written at least fifty academic articles and reviews, and prepared numerous scholarly editions.
René Poupardin was a French medievalist and paleographer whose most important works were on Burgundy, Provence and the south Italian principalities. He was an alumnus of the École nationale des chartes and a member of the École française de Rome from 1899 to 1902. He was studies director at the École pratique des hautes études and later a professor at the École des chartes. He also worked as a librarian at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Born at Le Havre and died at Fontainebleau, most of his life was spent in Paris and Rome.
Clovis Brunel was a French philologist and writer.
Michel Antoine was a French, modernist historian.
Francine Hérail is a French historian specializing in Japan. Former resident at the Maison franco-japonaise in Tokyo, she was professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales until 1981, then director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études until 1998.
Marc H. Smith is a French historian and palaeographer Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in England, he has both French and British citizenship.
Yves-Marie Bercé, is a French historian known for his work on popular revolts of the modern era. He is a member of the Institut de France.
Charles Samaran was a 20th-century French historian and archivist, who was born in Cravencères and died at Nogaro, shortly before his 103rd birthday.
Anita Guerreau-Jalabert is a French medievalist born 25 January 1950 in Marseille.
Jacques Berlioz is a French historian.
Michelle Bubenicek is a French medievalist historian. She was appointed director of the École Nationale des Chartes on 1 September 2016.
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg was a French art historian and honorary general curator for heritage, a specialist on Gothic and Romanesque art.
Michel Parisse was a French historian who specialized in medieval studies. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny was a French librarian and historian.
Monique Zerner is a French medievalist, specialising in 11th, 12th and early 13th century pre-Inquisition heresies, the Albigensian Crusade and late medieval Comtat Venaissin, the third of these being the subject of her doctoral thesis. She studied under Georges Duby and has been emeritus professor in medieval history at the université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis since 2011.
