French historian and royalist apologist (1927–2020)
Pinoteau in 2019
Hervé Pinoteau, 6th Baron Pinoteau (19 July 1927 – 24 November 2020) was a French historian, expert in heraldic research and royalist apologist.[1] He was the author of more than 900 articles and 22 books primarily on history and heraldry.[2]
Biography
Pinoteau was born in Paris. From 1950 to 1951, he served in the French army as a lieutenant.[2] He served as the private secretary of the late Prince Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, for 26 years.[3]
Pinoteau was a member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique (International Academy of Heraldry) of which he was general secretary from 1964 to 1988.[4] He was president of the Société nationale des Antiquaires de France in 2010.[2] He was recognized as an expert in French heraldry and vexillology. He was commissioned to create the coat of arms of the Pays de la Loire region of France, and to do the final design for the coat of arms of the Republic of Chad.[2] Pinoteau was a monarchist who believed in the restoration of the House of Bourbon to the French throne. He was the founder of the Secretariat-du Prince Alphonse, Duc de Bourbon (1962) and the Institut de la maison de Bourbon (1973). He was considered one of the revitalizers of the Legitimist movement in France.
Monarchie et avenir, Nouvelles Editions Latines, Paris 1960
L'héraldique capétienne, 1976, revised 2000
L'État de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit en 1830 et la survivance des ordres du roi, 1983
Hervé Pinoteau, Fabien Gandrille, Christian Papet-Vauban, Etat présent de la maison de Bourbon : pour servir de suite à l'almanach royal de 1830 et à d'autres publications officielles de la Maison, Léopard d'or, 1986
Études sur les ordres de chevalerie du Roi de France, Le léopard d'Or, Paris 1995
Le chaos français et ses signes, 1998
Hervé Pinoteau, Jean de Vaulchier, Jacques Amable de Saulieu, Jean de Bodinat, Armorial de l'ANF - Association d'entraide de la Noblesse Française - Hervé Pinoteau : Héraldique et noblesse en préface de l'ouvrage
La symbolique royale française, 2004
Saint Louis: Son entourage et la symbolique chrétienne, 2006
Cinq études d'héraldique et de symbolique étatique, Léopard d'or, 2007
References
^Pinoteau, Hervé (27 August 2004). "Le Prince que j'ai servi" (in French). Vexilla Regis Prodeunt. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014.
^ a b c d"Pinoteau Hervé, baron" (in French). l'Académie des Sciences Morales, des Lettres et des Arts de Versailles et d'Île-de-France. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^Hanne, Isabelle (2 January 2009). "SAR » sur le passeport : petits privilèges pour princes de sang". Le Nouvel Observateur Rue89. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
^"Historique du Bureau de l'A.I.H." (in French). Académie Internationale d'Héraldique. 1998. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013.
^"Hervé Pinoteau, vice-président de l'Académie internationale d'héraldique, Auteur de:".