François Jourda de Vaux de Foletier
| François Jourda de Vaux de Foletier | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 June 1893 Noyant, Maine-et-Loire |
| Died | 17 February 1988 (aged 94) 13th arrondissement of Paris |
| Occupation | Archivist Historian |
François Jourda de Vaux de Foletier, also called François de Vaux de Foletier, (22 June 1893 – 17 February 1988) was a 20th-century French archivist and historian, a specialist of the history of the Romani people in Europe.
A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, Vaux de Foletier graduated as archivist-palaeographer in 1917 with a thesis about Jacques Ricard de Genouillac, master of the French artillery.
In 1955, he was among the founders of the journal Études tsiganes.
He was awarded several prizes by the Académie française in 1931, 1961, 1970 and 1981.
Henriette Asséo dedicated him her book Les Tsiganes — une destinée européenne, the 218th title published in 1994 by the Éditions Gallimard in the series "Découvertes Gallimard, Histoire", ISBN .
Vaux de Foletier wrote over two hundred articles, reports, bibliographical entries in the journal Études tsiganes and the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society.
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