Lucien Musset
French historian
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| Intro | French historian | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Historian | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 26 August 1922, Rennes, canton of Rennes-Centre, arrondissement of Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine | |
| Death | 15 December 2004Caen, arrondissement of Caen, Calvados, Normandy (aged 82 years) | |
| Star sign | Virgo |
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Lucien Musset (August 26, 1922 – December 15, 2004) was a French historian, specializing in the Duchy of Normandy and the history of the Vikings.
Born in Rennes, Musset served as a Professor of History at the University of Caen.
Musset's major works include:
- Les Peuples scandinaves au Moyen Âge (Scandinavian Peoples in the Middle Ages), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1951, 352 p.
- Les Invasions : les vagues germaniques (Invasions: The Germanic Waves), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
- Les Invasions ; le second assaut contre l’Europe chrétienne VIIe−XI siècles (Invasions: The Second Assault Against Christian Europe, 7th – 11th Centuries), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
- Nordica et normannica : recueil d’études sur la Scandinavie ancienne et médiévale, les expéditions des Vikings et la fondation de la Normandie (Nordica and Normannica: collection of essays on ancient and medieval Scandinavia, the Viking expeditions and the founding of Normandy), Société des études nordiques, Paris, 1997
- "Naissance de la Normandie" ("Birth of Normandy"), in Michel de Boüard (editor), Histoire de la Normandie, Privat, Toulouse, 1970, p. 75-129 (ISBN 2-7089-1707-2)