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Is a historian Jean Favier, in the Middle Ages, a former director and past president of the National Archives, the National Library of France, died Aug. 12 at the age of 82 announced his Paris home of cancer on Saturday, said his son AFP.

Francois Hollande welcomed the announcement of the memory of "the greatest historian of the Middle Ages, it is also a great servant of the state."

On April 2, 1932 in Paris, Jean Favier in the Ecole des Chartes, the escape and the staff, where he graduated in 1956 paleógrafo file before he managed a history professor and doctor.

Then followed an academic career at the Faculty of Rouen and at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.

In 1975 he was was appointed director of the National Archives, has in the Hotel de Soubise, the installed Marais in Paris. In this position he was nineteen, and which are used to modernize the sector is clear.

The opening of the man in the media is known, in 1994 and in 1997 was elected president of the BNF (National Library of France), the French National Commission for UNESCO.

Jean Favier makes an impressive bibliography of a specialized, is as the "grandfather of Finance during the Great Schism of the West" (1966), "Economics and Finance at the end of the Middle Ages" (1971), labor and public works such as "Philipp the Beautiful "," Hundred Years War "(1980)," Francois Villon "(1982)," Gold and Spices "," great discoveries "(1991).

In 1993 he published the "Dictionary of the Middle Ages in France," the result of fifteen years of work that explores nearly a thousand pages, ten centuries of our history.

To Fayard, six volumes of the history of France, which he had written a second volume, entitled "The principalities. 1,515 mil"

He also launched a historic tour from 1973 to 1997.

Among his many titles, Jean Favier was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Chairman of the Board? Directors of the Ecole Normale Superieure, director of the National Audiovisual Institute, Honorary President of the International Council on Archives.

Radio stations will be prompted to enter the history of France Inter.

His family said his funeral will be on September 4, St. Francis Xavier, Paris VII instead.