Robert Sauzet
Robert Sauzet (December 1927 – 12 February 2023) was a French historian. Biography Born in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort in December 1927, Sauzet spent his childhood in Saint-Martial. After his secondary school studies at the , he earned a degree in history from the University of Montpellier in 1955. In 1976, he defended his doctoral thesis, titled Contre-Réforme et Réforme catholique en Bas-Languedoc : le diocèse de Nîmes au xviie siècle. Sauzet became a professor of history at the University of Tours and served as director of the from 1985 to 1991. He was elected a non-resident member of the in 1994. In 2017, he received the Médaille du . After his marriage to Madeleine Bouillie, he had three sons, including linguist . Robert Sauzet died on 12 February 2023, at the age of 95. Works Les Visites pastorales dans le diocèse de Chartres pendant la première moitié du xviie siècle : essai de sociologie religieuse (1975) Contre-Réforme et Réforme catholique en Bas-Languedoc : le diocèse de Nîmes au xviie siècle (1979) Les Réformes : enracinement socio-culture (1982) Pratiques et discours alimentaires à la Renaissance (1982) Les Frontières religieuses en Europe du xve au xviie siècle (1992) Henri III et son temps (1992)