Jean Duvernoy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Duvernoy

French historian

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1917

Place of Birth: Montbéliard, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 18-Aug-2010

Profession: translator, medievalist, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jean Duvernoy (1st of January 1917 – 19th of August 2010, Saint-Jean de Luz) was a French medievalist.
Born in 1917 in Bourgoin to a Protestant family, he began to study the Waldensians and later Catharism.
He edited and translated a great number of sources, including Jacques Fournier's inquisition register, from which the French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie extracted Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error.