Isabelle Attard

Isabelle Robert Attard (born 4 November 1969, in Vendôme) is a French archaeologist and politician, best known for her work in archaeozoology, specialising in the Bearded vulture during the Last Glacial Period. She has served as the museum director for the Bayeux Tapestry Museum from 2005 to 2010, and then the Utah Beach D-Day Museum from 2010 to 2012. As a politician, she has served as deputy for Calvados's 5th constituency, and was a member of the Europe Ecology – The Greens party until 2013, after which she was co-president of the New Deal party until 2015. Since 2015, she self-identifies as an anarchist.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Biography

After a first-year DEUG in economics at the Montesquieu University, Isabelle Attard turned to history and obtained a DEUG in history at the University of Orléans. She then worked as a freelancer for the newspaper La République du Centre. Around this time, in 1990, she married and moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, where she worked in a McDonald's restaurant.[8]

In 2002, she went to South Africa as a researcher at the Duinefontein site while preparing her thesis (from 2000 to 2004). After passing the heritage conservation officer exam in 2004, she was appointed director of the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in 2005, a position she held until her resignation in 2010.[9]

In 2010, she obtained a PhD in environmental archaeology and archaeozoology.[10]

In 2014, she received the 2014 E-Toile d'Or award in the “politics” category for her legislative work in support of Free software.[11]

Selected works

Books

  • Comment je suis devenue anarchiste. Paris: Éditions du Seuil. 2019. ISBN 978-2-0214-4035-5.

Papers

  • Vigne, Jean-Denis; Attard, Isabelle (2002). "The Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) as an Accumulator of Archaeological Bones : Late Glacial Assemblages and Present-day Reference Data in Corsica (Western Mediterranean)". Journal of Archaeological Science. 29 (7): 763–777.
  • Costamagno, Sandrine; Attard, Isabelle; Laroulandie, Véronique; Mourre, Vincent; Thiébaut, Céline (1994). "Rôle du gypaète barbu (Gypaetus barbatus) dans la constitution de l'assemblage osseux de la grotte du Noisetier (Fréchet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrénées, France)" [Role of the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) in the constitution of the bone assembly of the Grotte du Noisetier (Fréchet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrénées, France)]. Annales de Paléontologie (in French). 4 (94): 245–265.

References

  1. ^ "Isabelle Attard, l'insoumise qui réunit toute la gauche... mais échoue au 1er tour". www.marianne.net (in French). 6 November 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  2. ^ "De Mélenchon au PS: l'exploit de la députée normande Isabelle Attard". parismatch.com (in French). 17 May 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Rencontre avec Isabelle Attard, ancienne députée écolo devenue anarchiste". Le Poing (in French). 17 May 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Isigny-sur-Mer. L'ex-députée du Bessin, Isabelle Attard, maintient sa dédicace". actu.fr (in French). 13 March 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Législatives. Isabelle Attard, sans étiquette : «L'important, c'est de ne pas perdre son âme»". leparisien.fr (in French). 28 May 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  6. ^ "La députée Isabelle Attard quitte Les Verts, «pas assez à gauche»". l'Opinion (in French). 5 December 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  7. ^ Costa, Prisca Da (28 November 2019). "Isabelle Attard, "tout remettre dans l'ordre de l'anarchie"". Radio Parleur (in French). Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Les Inrocks - Isabelle Attard, la députée qui veut dynamiter le paysage politique français". Les Inrocks. 2016-04-25. Archived from the original on 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2025-08-14.
  9. ^ Baudier, Laura (2020-01-23). "L'anarchiste Isabelle Attard, directrice du musée de Bothoa". Le Poher (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-03-25.
  10. ^ "Evaluation de l'impact du Gypaete (Gypaetus Barbatus) et des griffons dans la constitution des accumulations d'ossements animaux et humains des sites anthropises et naturels quaternaires / par Isabelle Attard Robert ; sous la direction de Jean-Denis Vigne - Sudoc". www.sudoc.fr. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  11. ^ Bouchard, Murielle (2014-01-28). "Isabelle Attard reçoit le prix de l'E-Toile d'Or 2014 « politique »". Liberté - Le Bonhomme libre (in French). Archived from the original on 2014-02-08.
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