Pierre Riché
Pierre Riché (October 4, 1921 – May 6, 2019) was a French historian specializing in the early Middle Ages and the year 1000 (French: "An mil" or "An mille"). Biography. After studying at the Faculté des lettres de Paris, he passed the aggregation of history in 1948, and taught at the high school of Constantine (Algeria) and at Le Mans. In 1953, he was appointed assistant at the Sorbonne. From 1957 to 1960 Pierre Riché taught as assistant professor in Tunis, before joining the University of Rennes. In 1962, he obtained his doctorate of 3 with a thesis on  Education and culture in the barbaric West. He was then appointed professor at the Faculty of letters of Nanterre in October 1967. In 1968, he founded the Center for Research on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. He retired in 1989. He is the father of the journalist Pascal Riché.