Luce Pietri


Luce Pietri was a French historian and scholar of late antiquity.

Education

Pietri attended the Lycée Thiers in Marseille and École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in 1952.

Career

Pietri is known for her work on late antique history and early Christianity, especially the history of Gaul, and prosopography. She has also published editions of the hagiographies of Gregory of Tours.
In 1992–93 she was appointed a Professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University. During the 1990s, she was the director of Centre Lenain de Tillemont at the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Personal life and death

Married to the historian Charles Pietri, together they had three children.
Luce Pietri died on 15 February 2024, at the age of 92.

Selected publications

La topographie chrétienne des cités de la Gaule des origines à la fin du VIIe siècle. Paris: Publications du Centre de Recherches sur l'Antiquité tardive et le Haut Moyen-âge.La ville de Tours du IVe au VIe siècle. Naissance d'une cité chrétienne. Rome, Publications de l'École Française de Rome.