René Debrie

René Debrie (4 July 1920 – 1 August 1989) was a French linguist.

He was born in Warloy-Baillon on 4 July 1920, and died in Amiens on 1 August 1989 Debrie obtained his degree in literature in 1944 and his PhD at the Sorbonne in 1960.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, he became one of the experts of the dialect of the Picard language, greatly expanding knowledge in that area.

He encouraged many of his students (including Beauvy Francois and Pierre Ivart) to publish lexicons and dictionaries of regional languages.

In 1966, he created the cultural association Éklitra with Pierre Garnier and Rene Vaillant.