Henry Marcel

Henri-Camille Marcel called Henry Marcel, (25 November 1854 – 6 March 1926) was a 19th–20th-century French senior official, general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1905 to 1913.

In October 1903, he succeeded Henry Roujon at the head of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris.

In 1905, he was appointed general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale after Léopold Delisle.

In May 1913, he became head of the Réunion des musées nationaux, until 1919.

In February 1899, he married Laure Meyer (first daughter of banker Maurice Meyer) with whom he had a son, philosopher and playwright Gabriel Marcel. After Laure's premature death, he married Berthe Meyer, sister of the former.

References

External links

• Henry Marcel on data.bnf.fr
• Thèse d'Hortense Dufour (Sorbonne) sur la carrière d'Henry Marcel

1. Marcel Henry
2. Gabriel Marcel
3. Schlumberger brothers
4. Marcel Dassault
5. Dassault Aviation
6. Marcel Proust
7. Marcel Duchamp
8. Bibliothèque nationale de France
9. Thierry Henry
10. Marcel Roethlisberger
11. Marcel Iureș
12. Marcel Granier
13. Fountain (Duchamp)
14. Marcel Courmes
15. Abdullah Quilliam
16. Gaston III, Count of Foix
17. Marcel Dalio
18. Henry David Thoreau
19. Readymades of Marcel Duchamp
20. Portrait of Marcel Duchamp