Claude Gauvard

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Claude Gauvard is a French historian who specializes in the Middle Ages. Born in Paris on 10 December 1942, she has been the president of the Société de l'histoire de France since 2009. She began her academic career as an assistant at the University of Rouen in 1969, then at the Sorbonne in 1971. She earned her doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on crime, the state, and society in late medieval France, which won the Malesherbes Prize and the Gobert Award. In 1990 she became a professor of medieval history at the University of Reims, and in 1992 she returned to Panthéon-Sorbonne University to teach medieval history until 2009. She has also received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.