Regime pernoud biography of barack

French historian and archivist

Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909, Château-Chinon, Nièvre – 22 April 1998, Paris) was a French historian and archivist.^[1] Pernoud was one of the most prolific medievalists in 20th century France; more than any other single scholar of her time, her work advanced and expanded the study of Joan of Arc.^[2]

Career

In 1929, she obtained a baccalauréat universitaire ès lettres (BA) at the University of Aix-en-Provence.

She moved to Paris where she entered the École nationale des chartes which she left in 1933 with a diploma as an archivist-paleographer. In 1935, she was awarded a doctorate in medieval history from the Sorbonne. Having grown up in an impoverished family, she worked in various professions (including as a teacher, a coach, and an archivist) while completing her university studies and while waiting for a post in a museum.

She later became curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Reims, in 1947, at the Museum