{{short description|French archaeologist}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata| fetchwikidata=ALL | onlysourced=yes }} '''Georges Chenet''' (13 June 1881 - 31 May 1951) was a French archeologist from Argonne who participated in excavation in Syria.

== Biography == [[File:Pot_Ras_Shamra_Louvre_AO19250-b.jpg|thumb|Pot and lid, painted terracotta, recent Bronze Age I. Discovered at Ras Shamra (formerly Ugarit), Eastern low city, tomb n° 53.]] Chenet served in the French infantry during the First World War. He became the last Master tiler at Claon,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2017-08-30|title=Qui était Georges Chenet ?|url=https://www.estrepublicain.fr/edition-de-verdun/2017/08/30/qui-etait-georges-chenet|journal=L'Est Républicain}}.</ref> where he was also elected mayor, serving in that office from de 1929 to 1939.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2018-05-16|title=Le Claon : en mémoire de Georges Chenet|url=https://www.estrepublicain.fr/edition-de-verdun/2018/05/16/le-claon-en-memoire-de-georges-chenet|journal=L'Est Républicain}}.</ref>

Chenet started his career as a specialist of Gallo-Roman pottery in Argonne, with no academic credentials or diploma. His work in the region focuses on the Gallo-Roman ceramics of Argonne, on the Merovingian cemetery of Lavoye and on the prehistory of the upper Aisne valley.<ref name="gg">{{Cite journal|last=Guy Gaudron|year=1950|title=Georges Chenet (13 juin 1881-31 mai 1951)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/galia_0016-4119_1950_num_8_1_1933|journal=Gallia|volume=8|issue=1|page=107}}.</ref>

In the Middle East, Chenet worked with Claude F.-A. Schaeffer in the mission to Ras Shamra near Latakia, in Syria.<ref name="gg">{{Cite journal|last=Guy Gaudron|year=1950|title=Georges Chenet (13 juin 1881-31 mai 1951)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/galia_0016-4119_1950_num_8_1_1933|journal=Gallia|volume=8|issue=1|page=107}}.</ref>

Chenet's personal collection were looted during the First World War and again in 1940; the remainder is kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.<ref name="gg">{{Cite journal|last=Guy Gaudron|year=1950|title=Georges Chenet (13 juin 1881-31 mai 1951)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/galia_0016-4119_1950_num_8_1_1933|journal=Gallia|volume=8|issue=1|page=107}}.</ref>

Part of his notes is kept at the Departmental Archives of Meuse.<ref>''Fonds Meunier et Chenet'' —&nbsp;71 J 1-64&nbsp;— aux archives départementales de la Meuse.</ref>

In 2018, the Terres d'Argonne association published a biography, authored by Colette Méchin.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Georges Chenet (1881-1951)|last=Colette Méchin|publisher=Éditions Terres d'Argonne|year=2018}}.</ref>

== Publications == Main publications

* {{Cite book|title=La céramique gallo-romaine d'Argonne du IVe siècle et la terre sigillée décorée à la molette|last=Georges Chenet|publisher=Protat frères|year=1941|location=Mâcon|pages=194}} * {{Cite book|title=La céramique sigillée d'Argonne des IIe et IIIe siècles|last=Georges Chenet|last2=Guy Gaudron|publisher=CNRS|year=1955|series=Supplément à Gallia|location=Paris|pages=246|issue=VI}}

Georges Chenet also published numerous articles:

* {{Cite journal|last=Georges Chenet|year=1927|title=Un "Coucou" gallo-romain d'Argonne »|journal=Revue des musées et collections archéologiques|issue=10|pages=337–339}}. Des extraits de cet article sont consultables dans la notice sur les sifflets en terre cuite<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mucem-sifflets-terre-cuite.fr/collection/chapeau.php?pays=champagne-ardenne&title=Champagne-Ardenne |title=Les sifflets en terre cuite: Champagne-Ardenne |publisher=www.mucem}}</ref> du Mucem.du Mucem. * {{Cite journal|last=Georges Chenet|last2=Camille Jullian|year=1929|title=Le Pont-des-Quatre-Enfants|journal=Revue des Études Anciennes|volume=31|issue=4|page=353|doi=10.3406/rea.1929.2549}} * {{Cite journal|last=Georges Chenet|year=1931|title=Faucilles préhistoriques de Ras Shamra (Alaouites)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_1931_num_28_11_5885|journal=Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France|volume=25|issue=11|pages=469–475}} * {{Cite journal|last=Georges Chenet|year=1945|title=De quelques stationnements tardenoisiens en Argonne meusienne|journal=Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France|volume=42|issue=4–6|pages=96–97|doi=10.3406/bspf.1945.1946}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== See also == {{Sister project links|commons=Category:Georges Chenet}} * Ugarit

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chenet Georges}} Category:Ugarit Category:People from Meuse (department) Category:French archaeologists Category:1881 births Category:1951 deaths