André Laronde

André Laronde (19 June 1940, in Grenoble – 1 February 2011, in Paris) was a French historian and archaeologist.

Laronde wrote his PhD thesis under the directorship of François Chamoux.

[1] After he taught at the University of Grenoble, André Laronde was a professor at the Sorbonne[2] in which he presented in 1976 his thesis for the State doctorate « Recherche sur l'histoire de Cyrène », which studied the history of Cyrenaica under the domination of the Lagides.

[3] He assisted François Chamoux since the creation in 1976 of the French Archaeological Mission in Tripoli, then became director from 1981.

[4] He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002.