Charles Picard

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Charles Picard in 1922

Charles Picard (7 June 1883 – 15 December 1965) was a prominent

Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
in 1932.

His children were the historian Gilbert Charles-Picard and Yvonne Picard, a member of the French Resistance, who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.

Sources

  • Raymond Lebègue, Éloge funèbre de M. Charles Picard, membre de l'Académie, Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 110e année, No 1, 1966 (pp. 1–6) (online edition)
  • Ève Gran-Aymerich, Les chercheurs de passé, Editions du CNRS, 2007 (pp. 1058–1059)