Juliette de La Genière

Juliette de La Genière (; 4 August 1927 – 6 June 2022) was a French archaeologist. She worked at the University of Lille, where she founded the archaeology research centre, and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Biography De La Genière was born in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin. After studying law (1946) and political science (graduating from Sciences Po in 1949), she obtained a diploma from the École du Louvre in 1954. She became a research fellow at the CNRS, a project manager at the Louvre, and received her PhD in classical archaeology in 1968.

On 27 October 2000, she was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, succeeding Paul Ourliac, after having been a correspondent of the Académie for seven years. Commandeur (2016) Commandeur of the National Order of Merit Commandeur of the Ordre des Palmes académiques Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters Grand-Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic