Lucien Romier

After studying at the École des Chartes[1] where he wrote a thesis on Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André, he was a member of the French School in Rome.

He made a career in journalism and was editor of the newspaper Le Figaro from 1925 to 1927 and from 1934 to 1942.

Personal friend of Pétain, he was minister of State in Laval's fourth Ministry from 18 April 1942 to 31 December 1943.

He died of a heart attack while being arrested by the Gestapo.

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Monseigneur Louis Duchesne and his students at the Ecole Française de Rome (1911/12); Romier in the back row, second from the left
Lucien Romier painted by Ángel Zárraga