Étienne Taillemite
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| Born | 18 April 1924  |
| Died | 24 August 2011 (aged 87) |
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Étienne Taillemite (Poitiers, 18 April 1924 – Allogny, 24 August 2011)[1] was a French historian and archivist.[2]
Born to a military family,[2] Taillemite attended the École nationale des chartes, graduating in 1948 as an Archivist-paleographer with a thesis La vie économique et sociale à Bourges de 1450 à 1560 ("Economic and social life in Bourges between 1450 and 1560").[3] He was first archivist at the Ministry of Overseas, then Director of the Departmental Archives of Cher. By 1967, he was conservator, and then conservator in chief at the Archives nationales.[1] He served as inspector-general of the Archives of France from 1981 to 1985, when he retired.[1][2]
Taillemite devoted a large proportion of his career to naval history.[1]
From 1977, he was a member of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (in Modern and Contemporary History). He served as President of the Commission française d'histoire maritime, and in 1986 was President of the Académie de marine.
He was also a member of the Société de l'histoire de France (serving on its Board until 2010) and of the Société des sciences naturelles et archéologiques de la Creuse.
He notably authored a biography of Lafayette.
Taillemite was buried in Allogny.
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