Germaine Perrin de la Boullaye
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Germaine Perrin de la Boullaye | |
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| Born | September 2, 1875 |
| Died | March 8, 1939 (aged 63) |
| Nationality | French |
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| Discipline | Archaeology |
Mathilde Marie Germaine Arbeltier Jullien de la Boullaye (2 September 1875 - 8 March 1939) was one of the first female French archaeologists.[1]
Biography
[edit]Perrin had a lifelong interest in archaeology and history, encouraged by her father Pierre Marie Christophe Ernest Arbeltier Jullien de la Boullaye, the curator of the museum of Troyes and a president of the Société académique de l'Aube.[2] In 1907 she first undertook excavations on a Gallic cemetery at Soudé. She periodically employed Henri Rataux as a labourer to undertake excavations on her behalf between 1910 and 1914.[3] The excavations uncovered burials from the Iron Age through to the Merovingian periods. Her archaeological collection was published in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Ravaux.[1]
Personal life
[edit]She married Edmond Perrin who was killed in World War I on 2 October 1915. She had four children: two boys including the future Dominican friar Joseph-Marie Perrin and two girls. She is the grandmother of Prof Alain Venot
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ravaux, Jean-Pierre (1992). La collection archéologique de Mme Perrin de La Boullaye. Museum of Chalons-en-Champagne and Society of Friends of the Museums of Chalons-sur Marne.
- ^ Mémoires de la société académique de l’Aube 1939-1942
- ^ Effros, Bonnie (2012). Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914. Oxford University Press. p. 107.
