Joseph Girard (historian)


Joseph Girard was a French historian, librarian and museum curator. He was born and died in Avignon, where an avenue is named after him.

Life

He gained a licence to practice law before studying at the École nationale des chartes, where in 1903 he gained a diploma as a palaeographer-archivist. He was curator of the musée Calvet and its library from 1906 until 1949, when he became curator of the Palais des papes. Later he also became curator of art and antiquities of Vaucluse. Between 1909 and 1958, he published eleven works and studies on his work in the archives at the Palais des papes.
Anticlericalist and republican by nature, he married Marie-Thérèse Fabre de Loye in Bouchet. They had two daughters and three sons, Henri, René, Marthe, Marie and Antoine.

Works