Born to a military family,[2] Taillemite attended the École nationale des chartes, graduating in 1948 as an Archivist-paleographer with a thesis La vie économique et sociale à Bourges de 1450 à 1560 ("Economic and social life in Bourge between 1450 and 1560").[3] He was first archivist at the Ministry of Overseas, then Director of the Departmental Archives of Cher. By 1967, he was conservator, and then conservator in chief at the Archives nationales.[1] He served as inspector-general of the Archives of France from 1981 to 1985, when he retired.[1][2]

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The world's most remote island is a Norwegian territory.
But it may surprise you to learn that it's not in the north! It's actually on the other side of the world. Administered by Norway since 1929, Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is Planet Earth's most remote island.