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Roger Grand
Grand in 1928
Senator for Morbihan
In office 28 August 1927 – 9 January 1933
Preceded by	Ernest Lamy
National Council Member
In office 22 January 1941 (1941-01-22) – 1943
Member of the Brittany Advisory Committee
Personal details
Born	3 September 1874 Châtellerault (Vienne, France)
Died	26 May 1962 v t e 7th arrondissement of Paris Neighbourhoods Faubourg Saint-Germain Quartier du Gros-Caillou Primary and secondary schools Lycée et collège Victor Duruy Établissement La Rochefoucauld Institut de l'Alma Lycée-collège Paul-Claudel Lycée d'Hulst Lycée Sainte-Jeanne Elisabeth Lycée Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin Lycée Thérèse-Chappuis Istituto Statale Italiano Leonardo Da Vinci Colleges and universities American University of Paris Sciences Po Landmarks American Church in Paris Eiffel Tower Hôtel de Boisgelin Hôtel Matignon Les Invalides Musée de l'Armée Musée des Plans-Reliefs Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine Musée Maillol Musée de la Légion d'honneur Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération Musée du quai Branly Musée Rodin Musée Valentin Haüy Pont de l'Alma Pont des Invalides Taipei Representative Office in France Paris Métro stations Assemblée Nationale Champ de Mars Duroc École Militaire Invalides La Tour-Maubourg Rue du Bac Saint-François-Xavier Ségur Sèvres – Babylone Solférino Vaneau Varenne Paris RER stations Invalides
Political party	UR
Alma mater	École nationale des chartes
Profession	Archivist Historian Farmer

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. Eyesight issues forced him to retire as an archivist and turn to farming.

His eyesight meant that he couldn't fight in the First World War and became an auxiliary, working as an agricultural specialist to keep up crop yields on the home front. In 1919 he became a professor of civil law and canon law at the École nationale des chartes.

While also working as a farmer, he took on union responsibilities as president of the Union nationale des syndicats agricoles between 1934 and 1938. He served as a senator for Morbihan from 1927 to 1933.

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

References

1. École des Chartes Website
2. ^ "GRAND Roger". Sénat (in French). Archived from the original on 13 November 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
3. "Search - Léonore Database". www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 22 June 2024.

External links

• 1874 births
• People from Châtellerault
• French archivists
• Legal historians
• 20th-century French historians
• People from Cantal
• Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
• Senators of Morbihan
• Members of the National Council of Vichy France
• French senators of the Third Republic
• 1962 deaths
• UNSA leaders
• Recipients of the Legion of Honour