Born on February 15, 1904 in Laurière (Haute-Vienne). Died on May 31, 1985.
Education and professional career
- 1924-1927: Student at the École normale Supérieure
- 1927-1932: Member of the École Française d'Archéologie in Athens
- 1932-1974: Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes (IVe section) in historical geography of the Greek world and Greek epigraphy
- 1939-1974: Professor of Greek Epigraphy and Antiquities at the Collège de France
Awards and distinctions
- Member of the Academies of London, Vienna, Paris (Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1948), Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Boston, Athens, Warsaw
- Honorary doctorate from the Universities of Louvain and Athens (Lettres, then Law)