Lot, Ferdinand (1866–1953)

French historian and philologist. He was a professor at the Sorbonne. He wrote many important works on on the early history of Europe, and of France.

He was born in Plessis-Piquet. Among his works are Les derniers carolingiens (1891), Etudes sur le règne de Hugues Capet et la fin du Xe siècle (1903), Le règne de Charles le Chauve (1909), La fin du monde antique et le début du moyen-age (1927), Les invasions germaniques (1935), Les invasions barbares et le peuplement de l'Europe (1937), La Gaule (1947). On medieval literature he wrote Etude sur le Lancelot en prose (1918), and various articles.