Germaine Perrin de la Boullaye

French archaeologist

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Edmond Perrin
Gaston Venot

Academic workDisciplineArchaeology

Mathilde Marie Germaine Arbeltier Jullien de la Boullaye (2 September 1875 - 8 March 1939) was one of the first female French archaeologists.^[1]

Biography

Perrin had a lifelong interest in archaeology and history, encouraged by her father Pierre Marie Christophe Ernest Arbeltier Jullien de la Boullaye, the curator of the museum of Troyes and a president of the Société académique de l'Aube.^[2] In 1907 she first undertook excavations on a Gallic cemetery at Soudé. She periodically employed Henri Rataux as a labourer to undertake excavations on her behalf between 1910 and 1914.^[3] The excavations uncovered burials from the Iron Age through to the Merovingian periods. Her archaeological collection was published in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Ravaux.^[1]

Personal life

She married Edmond Perrin who was killed in World War I on 2 October 1915. She had four children: two boys including the future Dominican friar Joseph-Marie Perrin and two girls. She is the grandmother of Prof Alain Venot

References

^ ^a ^b Ravaux, Jean-Pierre (1992). La collection archéologique de Mme Perrin de La Boullaye. Museum of Chalons-en-Champagne and Society of Friends of the Museums of Chalons-sur Marne.
^ Mémoires de la société académique de l’Aube 1939-1942
^ Effros, Bonnie (2012). Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914. Oxford University Press. p. 107.