Jean_Orcibal

Jean Orcibal (10 May 1913 – 18 December 1991) was a 20th-century French historian.
A member of the École française de Rome between 1933 and 1939, from 1952 he was directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études in his specialty, the history of modern and contemporary Catholicism. He particularly focused his research on Fénelon by editing his voluminous correspondence and on Jansenism. In 1990, he won the Amic Prize awarded by the Académie Française.