French historian (1908–1980)
Jean-François Marie Joseph Louis Lemarignier (26 March 1908 – 19 June 1980) was a French medieval historian.
Biography.
Born into a legal family in Paris in 1908, Lemarignier graduated with a licenciate in law in 1929, before entering the École des Chartes on the advice of Paul Fournier. Graduating archivist-paleographer in 1933. He became librarian-archivist at the Conseil d'État in 1934. After military service in 1939–1940, he passed the "agrégation" in legal history in 1941.
He was named "chargé de cours" at the University of Lille Faculty of Law in 1942, titular professor at Lille in 1949, and titular professor at University of Paris Faculty of Law, where he taught until his retirement in 1979. From 1970 to 1979, following the reorganization of the University of Paris, he held the chair in "histoire des institutions publiques et des faits sociaux" at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).
He died in Paris in 1980.
Work.
A specialist of medieval history of the 10th to the 12th centuries, Lemarignier's research focused on the evolution of medieval French governmental institutions.
Lemarignier's books include:
Honours.
Lemarignier received the "1re médaille des Antiquités de la France" in 1938 for his work on monastic exemption, the "Prix Gobert" of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1946 (second prize) and 1971 (first prize, for his book "La France médiévale"). He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1975. 
He was also a Knight of the Légion d'honneur and an Officer of the Palmes académiques"."
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