LAFAURIE Jean - Lot 401

LAFAURIE Jean The coins of the kings of France from Hugues Capet to Louis XII and from François I to Henri IV. Paris, 1951 and 195. Two leather-bound volumes. Very fine bindings. Second-hand. Perfect condition. Jean Lafaurie (1914-2008) was a renowned French numismatist, specializing in the study of French medieval coins. Although initially a postal employee in Bordeaux, he moved to Paris and, in 1944, joined the Cabinet des médailles at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where he worked until his retirement in 1979. At the same time, he completed his studies at the École pratique des hautes études, graduating in 1949 with a thesis that served as the basis for his catalogs on the coins of the kings of France. In 1951, he published a first catalog covering the monarchs of the Capetian dynasty and the House of Valois up to Louis XII, followed in 1956 by a second volume dedicated to the sovereigns of the 15th and 16th centuries.