François Jourda de Vaux de Foletier explained

Birth Date:22 June 1893
Occupation:Archivist
Historian

François Jourda de Vaux de Foletier, also called François de Vaux de Foletier, (22 June 1893 – 17 February 1988) was a 20th-century French archivist and historian, a specialist of the history of the Romani people in Europe.[1]

Biography

A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, Vaux de Foletier graduated as archivist-palaeographer in 1917 with a thesis about, master of the French artillery. In 1955, he was among the founders of the journal .

He was awarded several prizes by the Académie française in 1931, 1961, 1970 and 1981.

dedicated him her book Les Tsiganes — une destinée européenne, the 218th title published in 1994 by the Éditions Gallimard in the series "Découvertes Gallimard, Histoire", .

Works

Vaux de Foletier wrote over two hundred articles, reports, bibliographical entries in the journal Études tsiganes and the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society.

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Notes and References

  1. http://daf.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/sdx-222-daf-bora-ap/ap/fiche.xsp?id=FRAD01700AP_000000046 Base d’orientation et de recherche dans les archives (BORA) of the archives de France