Louis Carolus-Barré


Louis Carolus-Barré was a 20th-century French librarian and medievalist.

Biography

After studying at the École nationale des chartes of which he graduated in 1934, he was a member of the École française de Rome.
His career as curator of libraries successively led him to the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in the library of the Institute of France, at the General Secretariat of the French School of Rome, at the CNRS and the library of the Musée du Louvre and that of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. He also published numerous works devoted to the history of Picardy and the north of the Île-de-France in the Middle Ages. Louis Carolus-Barré
was a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France.
His son, Charles Barré, is known as a painter under the name.

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