Career
Charles Higounet was a French medievalist who taught in Bordeaux III university from 1946 to 1979, where a research center was named after him. He also led a team that worked on an historical atlas for French cities. He also the "Quebec sais-je ?" (famous French collection of thousands of shorts reference essays, summarising the state of the knowledge on various subjects) on various forms of writing.
The book has been re-edited more than ten times.
