Born July 11 1914, Clamart. Died 16 June 1991.
Education and professional career
- 1936-1939 : École normale supérieure
- 1939 : Agrégation in grammar
- 1947 : Doctorat ès-lettres
- 1940-1942 : Teacher at the Lycée de Chartres
- 1942-1945 : Assistant at Nancy Faculty of Letters
- 1945-1972 : Professor at Strasbourg University
- 1972-1985 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Languages and Civilization of Asia Minor
- 1954-1982 : Director of Studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études, 5th section. Religious Studies
- 1965-1975 : Director, French Institute of Archaeology, Istanbul
- 1948- 1976 : Scientific missions in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon
- Participation in excavations at Ras Shamra, Xanthos, Porsuk, Gûlnar
Awards and distinctions
- Associate member of the Academies of Vienna and Ljubijana
- Member of the Turkish Historical Society
- 1961-1972 : Membre libre de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- July 1984 : Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
