Pierre Marie Marcel Levéel (11 October 1914 - 3 May 2017) was a French historian and professor of history and geography.
He published 160 works and articles, « Pierre Leveel vient de s'éteindre à 102 ans », La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest, 5 May 2017 all on Touraine. A full list of his works is on the website of the Société archéologique de Touraine, . of which he was vice-president (1955-1961) and president (1961-1967 and 1976-1979). Monique Zollinger, « Les présidents et officiers de la SAT (1840-2016) : table pour une étude prosopographique », bulletin de la Société archéologique de Touraine, volume LXII, 2016, p. 160.
Life He was born in Chinon Archives départementales d'Indre-et-Loire, année 1914, commune de Chinon, acte de naissance no. 73, avec mention marginale de mariage and spent part of his childhood there. After gaining his teaching qualification he taught history and geography at the Lycée Descartes in Tours, France from 1940 to 1964. Évelyne Ballanger, « Le siècle de Pierre Leveel », La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest, 12 October 2014
He was president of the association des amis de Ronsard and received many distinctions, . being made a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1968, a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1971, and a commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques in 2012 He died in Tours and in 2007 a roundabout in the Monconseil district in the north of that city was named after him.
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