Born April 5 1939. Died May 9 2018.
Education and professional career
- Higher education in Paris
- 1959-1963 : École normale supérieure (Ulm)
- 1962 : Agrégation in Classics
- 1963-1964 : Second lieutenant at the École d'Application des Transmissions (Transmissions Application School)
- 1965 : Teacher at Lycée de Vandeuvre (Nancy)
- 1965-1968 : Member of the École Française de Rome
- 1968 : Doctor de3e cycle
- 1968-1984 : Assistant, then lecturer, then professor at the University of Provence (Aix) in National Antiquities
- 1975 : Doctor of State
- 1975-1979 : Director of the U.E.R. Lettres at the University of Provence
- march1 1984 professor at the Collège de France, chair d'Antiquités nationales
- Since September 2010 : Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
- Non-academic responsibilities
- 1969-1982 : Director of Antiquités Historiques de Côte d'Azur
- Since 1978 : Member of the Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche Archéologique
- 1985-1989 : Vice-President of the Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche Archéologique
- Member of the editorial board of several magazines
- 1982-1984 : Consultant to the Research Department of the French Ministry of Education
- 1985-1994 : Director of the CNRS research unit Gallia - Gallia Préhistoire
- 1992-1996 : Chairman of the CNRS Archaeology Committee
- 1985-2001 : Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Centre archéologique européen du Mont-Beuvray (Bibracte)
Awards and honors
- 1980 : Première médaille des Antiquités Nationales (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
- 1981 : Grand prix national d'archéologie (French Ministry of Culture)
- 1998 : Officer of the Legion of Honor
- 2008 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna (Italy)
