What is Bernard Cottret?
{{Infobox person |name = Bernard Cottret |image = Bernard Cottret, été 2015.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = Cottret |birth_date = 1951 |birth_place = [[Boulogne-Billancourt]], [[France]] |death_date = July 13, 2020 (aged 69) |death_place = |body_discovered = |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = French |ethnicity = |citizenship = |other_names = |known_for = [[Historian]] and literary scholar |education = [[Master's degree]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] |alma_mater = ''[[École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines]]'', [[Paris West University Nanterre La Défense]] |employer = [[Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ]] |occupation = Academic |years_active = |home_town = |title = |salary = |networth = |height = |weight = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |opponents = |boards = |religion = |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |relations = |callsign = |signature = |website = http://bernardcottret.monsite-orange.fr/ |footnotes = }} '''Bernard Cottret''' (1951 – July 13, 2020)<ref>[https://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/deces-de-bernard-cottret-historien-francais/101759 Décès de Bernard Cottret, historien français] {{in lang|fr}}</ref> was a French [[historian]] and literary scholar.<ref>{{in lang|fr}}[http://www.riposte-catholique.fr/riposte-catholique-blog/en-kiosque/thomas-more-par-bernard-cottret#.ULTVrqWAeBI Thomas More par Bernard Cottret] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820172532/http://www.riposte-catholique.fr/riposte-catholique-blog/en-kiosque/thomas-more-par-bernard-cottret#.ULTVrqWAeBI |date=2016-08-20 }}</ref> From 1988 to 2002, Bernard Cottret was a member of the steering committee of the ''[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]]''. The [[Académie fran