Simone Berbain

Simone Berbain was a French historian and archivist.

Simone Berbain
Born(1915-01-31)January 31, 1915
Paris, France
DiedNovember 21, 1949(1949-11-21) (aged 34)
Paris, France
EducationDiplomas d'Archiviste Paleographe
Alma materÉcole Nationale des Chartes
Spouse(s)Jacques Bénet

Born in Paris January 31, 1915, Berbain spent her childhood in Indochina.[1]

She attended École Nationale des Chartes where she trained as an archiviste paléographe. In 1939 she completed her thesis on a French trading post in West Africa in the 18th century.[2] Published in 1942 as "Le comptoir français de Juda (Ouidah) au XVIIIe siècle,"[3] the work was a well-received contribution to the history of the role France in the Atlantic slave trade.

Berbain's interest in questions of social history and the human elements that drove economic systems led to her involvement in various organizations during and immediately after the war.[1] This included the Centre d'information interprofessionnelle, Cabinet du ministre de la Production industrielle, and the Comité interministériel pour les questions de coopération économique européenne.[1]

Berbain married a classmate, Jacques Bénet, in 1944.[1][4] Bénet was heavily involved in the French Resistance, and later was involved in advocating for POWs, deportees and refugees in France,during and after the Second World War.[4][5] The couple had two children.[4]

Simone died in Paris on November 21, 1949.[1] Bénet's brother-in-law (it is unclear if this is Berbain's brother), then living in Algeria, took care of Simone's children, although her eldest daughter Christine, died in early 1950.[4]

Select Bibliography
  • Relations économiques de la France avec la Guinée de 1664 à 1797. (1939)[2]
  • Comptoir français de Juda (Ouidah), au XVIIIe siècle. (1942)[3]
  • Etudes sur la traite des noirs au Golf de Guinée. (1942)[6]
  • Les comités d'organisation: un bilan : octobre 1944. (1945)[7]
gollark: pjals: you lie.
gollark: No.
gollark: It doesn't count two blasphemies per sentence.
gollark: ?
gollark: Actually you know what? I won't fix it. Give everyone a clean slate. That would be nice, wouldn't it

References
  1. Garrigoux, Alice (1950). "Madame Jacques Bénet, née Simone Berbain (1915-1949)". Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes. 108 (1): 198–199.
  2. "Relations économiques de la France avec la Guinée de 1664 à 1797". theses.enc.sorbonne.fr. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  3. Berbain, Simone (1942). Le comptoir français de Juda (Ouidah) au XVIIIe siècle (in French). Paris: Larose. OCLC 2917172.
  4. Delmas, Bruno (2011). "Jacques Bénet (1915-2009)". Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes. 169 (2): 667–670.
  5. "Jacques Bénet", Wikipédia (in French), 2019-11-02, retrieved 2020-01-02
  6. Berbain, Simone; Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (1942). Études sur la traite des noirs au Golfe de Guinée: le comptoir français de Juda (Ouidah) au XVIIIe siècle (in French). Paris: Librairie Larose. OCLC 68036568.
  7. Donn; Bour, Henri; Berbain, Simone; Durand, Paul (1945). Les comités d'organisation: un bilan, octobre 1944 ... (in French). Paris: Librairie sociale et économique. OCLC 460620881.
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