Pierre Riché (October 4, 1921 – May 6, 2019) was a French historian specializing in the early Middle Ages and the year 1000 (French: An mil or An mille). Biography After studying at the Faculté des lettres de Paris, he passed the aggregation of history in 1948, and taught at the high school of Constantine (Algeria) and at Le Mans. In 1953, he was appointed assistant at the Sorbonne. From 1957 to 1960 Pierre Riché taught as assistant professor in Tunis, before joining the University of Rennes. In 1962, he obtained his doctorate of 3 with a thesis on Education and culture in the barbaric West. He was then appointed professor at the Faculty of letters of Nanterre in October 1967. In 1968, he founded the Center for Research on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. He retired in 1989. He is the father of the journalist Pascal Riché. Works La vie des enfants au Moyen Âge, Sorbier, coll. «La vie des enfants…», 2005 (with Danièle Alexandre-Bidon) Henri-Irénée Marrou, historien engagé, Cerf, 2003 Les Invasions barbares, PUF, coll. «Que sais-je ?», 1953; 2003 (with Philippe Le Maître) L'Europe de l'an mil, Éditions Zodiaque, 2001 Écoles et enseignement dans le haut Moyen Âge, Picard, 2000 Les grandeurs de l'An Mille, éditions Bartillat, 1999 Dictionnaire des Francs. Les temps mérovingiens, Christian de Bartillat, 1999 (with Patrick Périn) Les Carolingiens, Hachette, coll. «Pluriel», 1997 Éducation et culture dans l'Occident barbare : s-VIe -VIIIe, Seuil, coll. «Points Histoire», 1995 (4th edition) Césaire d'Arles, De l'Atelier, 1989 L'Europe barbare de 476 à 774, SEDES, Paris, 1989 Gerbert d'Aurillac : Le Pape de l'an mil, Fayard, 1987 Abbon de Fleury, un moine savant et combatif, Brepols, 2004 Grandeur et faiblesse de l'Église au Moyen Âge, Cerf, 2006 Des nains sur des épaules de géants : maître et élèves au Moyen Âge, Tallandier, 2006 C'était un autre millénaire, souvenir d'un professeur de la communale à Nanterre, Tallandier, 2008 References 1921 births 2019 deaths Academic staff of Paris Nanterre University Economic historians French medievalists Historians of France Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French male writers 20th-century French historians