12 Facts About Camille Jullian

Camille Jullian was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of literature.

Camille Jullian was made Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1926, and was elected to the Academie francaise in 1924.

Camille Jullian is the author of a monumental Histoire de la Gaule, published in eight volumes between 1907 and 1928, which has influenced Celtic studies throughout the 20th century.

Camille Jullian came from a Protestant family of farmers originally from Calvisson, Gard.

Camille Jullian attended the lycee of Marseille between 1864 and 1877, then the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he earned an agregation in history and geography in 1880.

Camille Jullian was a member of the Ecole francaise de Rome between 1880 and 1882.

Camille Jullian taught ancient history and classics at the University of Bordeaux between 1883 and 1905, becoming Professor in 1891, then was elected to the College de France in 1905, where he taught national antiquities until 1930.

Camille Jullian became a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1908, was made Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1926, and was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1924.

Camille Jullian was involved with the controversy over the archaeological findings at Glozel in France; he was among those who believed the artefacts recovered were forgeries.

Camille Jullian died on 12 December 1933 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

Camille Jullian's body is interred at the Protestant cemetery in Bordeaux.

The latter married a man named Simounet, a war veteran who ended his life in poverty; their son, the author Philippe Camille Jullian, took instead his grandfather's name.