Yvonne Bezard

Yvonne Henriette Julie Bezard (8 December 1893 – 30 March 1939), was a French archivist and historian who worked at the National Archives of France. Her work was selected for prestigious awards, one from the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and two from the Académie Française.

In 1923, Bezard entered the École des Chartes located in Paris and graduated third in her class in 1927, after she defended her thesis on Rural Life in the Josas Archdeaconry from the Hundred Years' War to the beginning of the Wars of Religion. Two years later, that thesis was reworked and finalized under a new title: La vie rurale dans le sud de la région parisienne de 1450 à 1560. At the same time, she published the Lettres du président de Brosses à Loppin de Gémeaux. With these two theses, she earned the title Doctor of Letters. A Burgundian family in the 18th century, Clichy (Seine), impr. Paul Dupont; Paris, Albin Michel, publisher, 1930. Charles de Brosses. Familiar letters on Italy, published from the manuscripts with an introduction and notes, Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1931, 2 vols. Maritime and colonial officials under Louis XIV: the Bégons, Paris: Albin Michel, 1932. President de Brosses and his friends from Geneva: based on unpublished correspondence exchanged between Charles de Brosses, Bénigne Legouz de Gerland, Charles Bonnet, Pierre Pictet, Jean Jallabert, Dijon: Annales de Bourgogne, 1937. The inventory after the death of the haberdasher Cramoisy, Paris: [sn], 1938 (Extr. from: “Bulletin of the Society of the History of Paris and the Île de France”, vol. LXIV). Madame de Staël according to her portraits, Châteauroux: Impr. Langlois; Paris; Neuchâtel: V. Attinger, 1938 (Publications of the Society of Staël Studies).