![]() ![]() ![]() When he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1996, he was described as an eminent scholar who has made a radical contribution to several disciplines. He is an academician of the Académie internationale d'héraldique (International Academy of Heraldry) and honorary president of the Société française d'héraldique et de sigillographie (French Heraldry and Sphragistic Society). Since 1983 he has held the Chair of History of Western Symbolism ( Chaire d'histoire de la symbolique occidentale) and is a director of studies at the Sorbonne's École pratique des hautes études. After writing his 1972 thesis about heraldic bestiaries in the Middle Ages, he worked in the coins, medals and antiquities department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France until 1982. He studied at the École Nationale des Chartes, a college for prospective archivists and librarians. Pastoureau was born in Paris on 17 June 1947. Michel Pastoureau (born 17 June 1947) is a French professor of medieval history and an expert in Western symbology. ![]()
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