Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan


Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan or Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan is a French historian and teacher. She is a Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She is known for her knowledge of Venice in the late Middle Ages.

Life

Crouzet-Pavan was born in Paris in 1953. She worked first teaching history and geography to secondary school age children. She took her doctorate in 1989 based on the history of Venice. She is known for her interest in the history of Italy and particularly her knowledge of Venice in the late Middle Ages.
She is married to another historian Professor Denis Crouzet. She is a Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
She won the Prix Guizot in 2002. In 2005, one of her books, "Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth", was published in English - thanks to a translation by Lydia Cochrane.

Works

Crouzet-Pavan became a knight of the Legion of Honour in 2008. In 2012, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent. In May 2015 she became an Officer of the National Order of Merit.