Pierre Cabanes

As a child, Pierre Cabanes lived through the war. Two of his older brothers and his father were involved in the French Resistance in the Le Puy-en-Velay region, his hometown, and two of his aunts in the Paris region. One of his uncles, Henri Rendu (1915–1944), was a Companions of Liberation. It was his maternal grandfather who developed his taste for history. He completed his history studies, first in Lyon and then in Paris, with a Doctorate thesis from the death of Pyrrhus of Epirus to the Epirus (Roman province) conquest (272–168 BC), prepared from 1965 onwards under the supervision of Pierre Lévêque. After teaching in Nantes, Pierre Cabanes joined the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1969, where he succeeded Claude Mossé as professor of Greek history. Dean (education) of the Faculty of Letters from 1974 to 1977[5], he was the first president of the Blaise Pascal University (1977-1982).I was then elected Professor of Ancient History at the University of Paris Nanterre University, where he ended his career. He was also president of the Société des professeurs d'histoire ancienne de l'Université (SOPHAU) and of the agrégation externe d'histoire. In 1992, his fellow archaeologists and historians asked him to co-direct the Apollonia (Illyria), where a French team led by archaeologist Léon Rey had already carried out excavations interrupted by the World War II. From 1976 onwards, he managed to stay regularly in Albania despite the difficult conditions of the Enver Hoxha. Over the years, he forged strong friendships with Professor Aleks Buda, President of the Academy of Sciences, Jusuf Vrioni, French translator of Ismail Kadare work, numerous Albanian archaeologists, as well as the diplomats Besnik Mustafaj, novelist and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Luan Rama (diplomat), former Ambassador to France and UNESCO. == Publications ==