Born in
Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort on 25 December 1927, Sauzet spent his childhood in
Saint-Martial. After his secondary school studies at the , he earned a degree in history from the
University of Montpellier in 1955. In 1976, he defended his doctoral thesis, titled
Contre-Réforme et Réforme catholique en Bas-Languedoc : le diocèse de Nîmes au xviie siècle. Sauzet became a professor of history at the
University of Tours and served as director of the from 1985 to 1991. He was elected a non-resident member of the in 1994. In 2017, he received the Médaille du . After his marriage to Madeleine Bouillie, he had three sons, including linguist . Robert Sauzet died on 12 February 2023, at the age of 95. ==Works==