![]() However, after sometime his focus and interest shifted from the modern era to the medieval times, and he got the chair of medieval archeology at Sorbonne, which proved to be fruitful and the most successful for his career as a medieval art historian. ![]() At first he was interested in modern era, and got a position as the professor of modern history at the University of Lyon alongside the directorship of the city's Musée des Beaux-Arts. His first teaching assignments were at the Lycée of Bourges from 1908 to 1910. During the early 1900s he studied philology from École Normale Supérieure, from where he graduated in 1906. He received his early education form schools by the names of Lycée Charlemagne and Lycée Henri IV in Paris. ![]() He was the youngest of all the Focillon's in the family and grew up between the artists such as Edouard Vuillard and Auguste Rodin and the early documenter of Impressionism, Gustave Geffroy. His father was Victor Louis Focillion who was an engraver and regular salon reviewer. Henri Focillon was born in 1881 in Dijon, Burgundy, France was a famous medievalist art historian, and theorist.
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