Paul-André Lemoisne

Paul-André Lemoisne (7 February 1875, Paris - 19 June 1964, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, librarian, and member of the Institut de France.

He became a student at the École Nationale des Chartes and, in 1901, was awarded a diploma as an archivist-paleographer, for his thesis on François de Vendôme.

[3] He met his future wife, Suzanne, the granddaughter of illustrator Paul Gavarni, at a gallery showing by Henri Rouart.

[1] From 1925 to 1939, he was Chief Curator of the Cabinet, and served two terms as the President of the Association des bibliothécaires de France (1927-1928, and 1931-1933).

[4] In 1945, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he took Seat #4 in the "Unattached" section; succeeding the Vicomte de Castelnau.