Jean Bayet

Jean Bayet

Jean Bayet, left in the front row. Louis Duchesne and students at the Ecole Française de Rome in 1919-1920.
Born Jean Alexis Bayet
12 November 1892
Versailles
Died 5 December 1969(1969-12-05) (aged 77)
Paris
Occupation Latinist
Professor

Jean Bayet (12 November 1892 – 5 December 1969) was a French Latinist. A Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Sorbonne, he was Director-General of Education in 1944 and Director of the École française de Rome from 1952 to 1960. In 1948 he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. A specialist of Latin literature and Religion in ancient Rome, Jean Bayet, through his works and the theses he directed, played a decisive role in the development of a French school of history of the Roman religion, particularly active in the second half of the twentieth century.

Biography

His grandfather was mayor of Commentry Allier from 1871 to 1873. His mother, Louise Villain, was the daughter of Isaac Villain (1830–1907) deputy mayor of Sedan at the end of the 19th century.

François Bayet, his son, died in deportation.

As a child he was overwhelmed with an infirmity in his legs, which made his walk painful and made him suffer all his life; He had to give up the military career his father had followed.

He entered the École normale supérieure in 1912, obtained his agrégation of letters and was a member of the École française de Rome from 1917 to 1920.

In 1915, he was awarded one of the Montyon Prizes by the Académie française and the Marcelin Guérin Prize in 1933.

He taught first in secondary education (at the Lycée Charlemagne and the Lycée de Laon), while continuing the preparation of his doctoral theses on Les Origines de l'Hercule romain and the critical study of the main monuments related to the Etruscan Hercules, which he defended in 1926. He was then appointed to the Faculty of Arts of Caen, before moving to the Sorbonne in 1932.[1]

At the Liberation of France, he was appointed Director-General of Education and took part in the work of the commission Langevin-Wallon.

He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 3 Decembre 1948. He was also a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia.

Jean Bayet was director of the École française de Rome from 1952 to 1960 (where he succeeded Albert Grenier ans was in turn succeeded by Pierre Boyancé). In 1954-1955, He presided the Unione internazionale degli Istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell'arte in Roma.

Upon his return, he retired (1961). His last years were obscured by the disease which gradually froze him in immobility.

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  1. ↑ On his attitude of opposition to Vichy and the occupying forces during the Occupation and in particular on his vote of opposition to the application of the status of the Jews in a preliminary vote at the Sorbonne Faculty Assembly of December 1940, we have the testimony of a colleague,Georges Mathieu, only recently published.

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