Leon Coutil
| Leon Coutil | |||||||||
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| Born | 1856 | ||||||||
| Died | 1943 | ||||||||
| Residence |
St Pierre de Vauvray, Eure Les Audelys, Eure, France [1925] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
artist archaeologist historian | ||||||||
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1915.10.26 Mons. Leon Coutil of Eure, France was proposed by Mr A.L. Lewis as Local Correspondent, but as it was an invariable rule that Correspondents should only be appointed from out of the way places, it was resolved to suggest to Mr Lewis that if Mons. Leon Coutil was sufficiently important to be elected as an Hon. Fellow that Mr Lewis should propose him as such
1915.11.30 A letter was read from Mons. Leon Coutil with reference to his appointment as Corresponding Member. It was resolved that Mons. Coutil be thanked for his letter & informed that for the present these appointments were not being considered.
1916.06.20 A letter was read from Mons. Leon Coutil, who had sent the Institute four volumes of his publications, asking that he might be made a Corresponding Member. It was resolved that Mons. Coutil be thanked for his gift in the name of the President & Council, but be informed that there is no membership of the kind suggested in his letter in connection with the Institute, the Secretary to write to Sir Arthur Evans in the meantime as to Mons. Coutil’s standing in scientific matters.
1916.07.18 The Secretary read a letter from Sir Arthur Evans with reference to Mons. Leon Coutil’s reputation in scientific matters, in which he stated that Mons. Coutil was a good comparative archaeologist, but that he was not certain that he had reached a standing implied by his election as an Hon. Fellow of the Institute.
1919.04.15 Mr Lewis’s suggestion that M. Leon Coutil should be appointed a Local Correspondent was next considered. It was resolved to refer the matter to Dr Seligman who promised to write to Dr Boule for his opinion as to the fitness of M. Leon Coutil for the appointment.
1919.05.20 Dr Seligman said he had written to L’Abbé Breuil instead of Dr Boule for information regrarding M. Leon Coutil, but had not yet received a reply.
1919.06.17 Dr Seligman stated that he had heard from L’Abbé Breuil with reference to Mons. Coutil. [The opinion expressed by the Abbé …][struck out] It was resolved to postpone the consideration of the question of the appointment of Mons. Coutil as a Local Correspondent to a fuller meeting of the Council.
1930.02.25 It was resolved to delete the following names from the list of Local Correspondents, M. Leon Coutil, A. Grimble, Ven. Archdeacon Shaw
Notes From Elsewhere
Léon Coutil, né le 13 octobre 1856 au hameau de Villers (Les Andelys) et mort le 24 janvier 1943 aux Andelys est un peintre, graveur, archéologue et historien local français.
Après un début de carrière dans la gravure et le dessin, cet érudit normand s’orienta définitivement vers des travaux sur la préhistoire et l’archéologie normande.
Publications
External Publications
Étude d’archéologie préhistorique, gauloise, mérovingienne et carolingienne, 2 volumes, 1917-1935 ;
Inventaire des monuments mégalithiques des départements normands, 3 volumes, 1895-1899 ;
L’Âge du bronze en Normandie, 4 volumes, 1892-1923 ;
L’Époque gauloise dans le sud-est de la Belgique et le nord-est de la Celtique, 2 volumes, 1902 ;
Les Casques proto-étrusques et gaulois, 1914.
