Clérac (French pronunciation: [kleʁak]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.
The historian and philologist James Germain Février (1895–1976) was born in Clérac.
Clérac (French pronunciation: [kleʁak]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.
The historian and philologist James Germain Février (1895–1976) was born in Clérac.
James Germain Février (January 1895, in Clérac – 15 July 1976, in Paris) was a 20th-century French historian and philologist. A specialist of the Semitic world, his thesis was on the archaeological site of Palmyra and he wrote numerous studies on the history of Carthage and the Phoenicians.
He was editor-in-chief of the Journal Asiatique from 1967 to 1972.