Roger Grand

Roger Grand was a French legal historian and politician, born in Châtellerault on 3 September 1874 and died in Paris on 26 May 1962.

Biography

A graduate of the École nationale des chartes, he earned the title of archivist paleographer with a thesis titled Contribution to the History of Land Tenure Systems: The Complant Contract.

After working as a trainee lawyer he worked as an archivist at Seine-et-Oise, Cantal, where he helped establish the Société de la Haute-Auvergne, and then Nantes.

He was a disciple of Frédéric Le Play.

The Académie française awarded him the Hercule-Catenacci Prize in 1952 for his work Une race, un château: Anjony, in the Land of Auvergne Mountains.

In 1954, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His academic sword was crafted by the sculptor Philippe Besnard.

Works The "Paix" of Aurillac: Study and Documents on the History of Municipal Institutions of a Consular Town , Paris, 1945. – Gobert Prize from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Agriculture in the Middle Ages from the End of the Roman Empire to the 16th century (with contributions from Raymond Delatouche), E. de Boccard, 1950. A Race, a Castle, Anjony, Paris, Picard, 1951.

Honors Officer of the Légion d'honneur (7 February 1952) Officier of Public Instruction Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit