Marius Barroux
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Marius Barroux (10 December 1862 – 18 Mach 1939) was a French historian and archivist. The Allée Marius-Barroux in Paris is named after him.
Family
He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris to Elphège Léon Barroux (part of the Préfet de la Seine's staff, who rose to chef de bureau in the prefecture of the Seine's administration) and his milliner wife Mathilde Estelle Pruvost. Marius studied at the École des chartes and gained an archivist-palaeographer diploma in 1885 thanks to a thesis on Jacques de Vitry, bishop of Acre and historian of the Fifth Crusade. He next studied at the École pratique des hautes études and graduated with licences in letters and law.
His first job was at the Archives Nationales, where he catalogued the papers of Port-Royal, in which he discovered lost acts relating to Blaise Pascal. He then moved to the Archives de la Seine on 1 February 1886. He spent the rest of his career there and reorganised it, initially as an assistant archivist then from 1 February 1906 as head archivist. He was made an Officier de l'Instruction publique and on 20 April 1921 made a knight of the Legion of Honour.[1] He retired at the end of 1928.
He, Eugène-Humbert Guitard, Ferdinand Brunot, Camille Bloch and Emmanuel Rodocanachi[2][3] were founder members of the Société d'histoire de la pharmacie. He was also one of those who directed the publication of the Dictionnaire de biographie française.
By his marriage to Lucie Candelot he had:
- André Barroux (1896–1951),[4] palaeographer-archivist
- Robert Barroux (1899–1960),[5] palaeographer-archivist
- Maxime Barroux (1908–1969), student at the École polytechnique, civil engineer at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, engineer-general for telecommunications, publisher of Les émetteurs de radiodiffusion et de télévision (PUF, 1967) in the "Que sais-je" series.
