Jean Malo-Renault


Not to be confused with Emile Malo-Renault or :fr:Nori_Malo-Renault|Nori Malo-Renault.

Biography

Jean Malo-Renault was a French librarian. Malo-Renault was born in Paris on 9 June 1900 into a family originating from Saint-Malo. He was the son of the pastellist, engraver and illustrator, Émile Malo-Renault, real name Émile Auguste Renault, and his wife Honorine, Césarine Tian, herself an printmaker, the name of artist: :fr:Nori_Malo-Renault|Nori Malo-Renault.
Jean Malo-Renault obtained his degree in history from the Sorbonne in 1924, and went on to the École du Louvre, where he wrote a thesis on religious architecture in Brittany in the Middle Ages.

Career

In 1928, he was appointed medical science subject librarian at the University of Toulouse; in 1932, he became librarian at the University of Montpellier.For a complementary thesis, he studying the letter adorned in the Middle Ages. Going on to be chief librarian of the public library of Montpellier in 1935. He returned to Brittany in 1937, and was in charge of Rennes University and Municipal Libraries until 1954.
Jean Malo-Renault collected a copious iconographic documentation towards a thesis on the religious architecture of Brittany. More broadly he was interested in Breton costume and popular arts.
He is known as the author of a vast retrospective bibliography of Brittany for which he analysed printed sources and periodicals from the period 1480 to 1960, which is preserved in the Bibliothèque de Rennes Méropole and available on microfiche since 1988.
In addition to the retrospective Bibliography of Brittany, he publishes Les pseudonymes des bretons in 1987.
He died at Rennes on 9 August 1988, aged 88.

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