Henri Verne

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Henri Jean François Joseph Verne (21 September 1880, Cannes – 11 February 1949, Paris) was a French museum director and curator.

Biography

He held degrees in literature and law. In 1906, he became a document editor at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. From 1911 to 1939, he worked for the

In 1937, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he took Seat #8 in the "Unattached" section. The following year, anticipating the war, he helped to devise a plan for transferring some of the museum's most vulnerable and valuable pieces to the relative safety of the Château de Chambord. Many of his original proposals were not fully carried out until well after the war.

References

Sources

• Pierre Rosenberg, Dictionnaire amoureux du Louvre, pg.869, Plon, Paris, 2007
  ISBN 978-2-259-20403-3
• Biographical data and references @ AGORHA
• Biographical data from the Committee of Historical and Scientific Works @ La France Savante
• "D’un Louvre moderne : le projet d’Henri Verne" by Agnès Callu, from Autopsie du Musée @
  OpenEdition.org