Jean Bossu (historian)
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Jean Bossu (16 March 1911 - 23 September 1985) was a French libertarian journalist and historian.
He wrote several general works on freemasonry, biographies of revolutionary figures and reflections on society.[1] He took part in the work on the Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français and published a three-volume Chronique des rues d'Épinal.
Throughout his life he wrote the longest file on French Freemasons, including around 130,000 entries.[2] On his death he left this "Bossu file" to the bibliothèque nationale de France - it was numbered over the course of the 20th century and allows contemporary historians to confirm that several 18th and 19th century people were freemasons.[3]
