Colette Picard | |
Birth Name: | Colette Durand |
Birth Date: | 30 October 1913 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Place: | Versailles, France |
Occupation: | Historian Archaeologist |
Spouse: | Gilbert Charles-Picard |
Children: | Olivier Picard |
Colette Picard (née Durand) (1913 – 11 October 1999, Versailles) was a French archaeologist and historian. As curator of the archaeological site of Carthage, she led excavations on the hill of Byrsa in 1947.[1]
Married to historian Gilbert Charles-Picard, Colette Picard was the mother of Hellenist Olivier Picard, former director of the École française d'Athènes and a member of the Institut de France.