Édouard Perroy

Édouard Perroy (2 August 1901 – 26 July 1974) was a French medieval historian and member of the French Resistance.

Life Born in Grenoble, Perroy passed his agrégation in 1924, and was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1924 to 1934. He defended his thesis on the religious policy of Richard II in 1934. The following year, he was appointed maître de conférences at Lille University, where he became a professor, before moving to the Sorbonne as a professor in 1949, retiring in 1971.

Perroy was a specialist on the late Middle Ages in England. A festschrift featuring sixty-four contributors, Économies et Sociétés au Moyen-Âge. Mélanges offerts à Édouard Perroy, was published in his honour in 1973.