Roger Grand was a French legal historian and politician, born in Châtellerault on 3 September 1874 and died in Paris on 26 May 1962.

A graduate of the École nationale des chartes, he earned the title of archivist paleographer with a thesis titled Contribution to the History of Land Tenure Systems: The Complant Contract.^[1]

After working as a trainee lawyer he worked as an archivist at Seine-et-Oise, Cantal, where he helped establish the Société de la Haute-Auvergne, and then Nantes.^[2] Eyesight issues forced him to retire as an archivist and turn to farming.^[2]

His eyesight meant that he couldn't fight in the First World War and became an auxiliary, working as an agricultural specialist to keep up crop yields on the home front.^[2] In 1919 he became a professor of civil law and canon law at the École nationale des chartes.^[2]

While also working as a farmer, he took on union responsibilities as president of the Union nationale des syndicats agricoles^[2] between 1934 and 1938. He served as a senator for Morbihan from 1927 to 1933.^[2]

He was a disciple of Frédéric Le Play.

The Académie française awarded him the Hercule-Catenacci Prize in 1952 for his work Une race, un château: Anjony, in the Land of Auvergne Mountains.^{[citation needed]}

In 1954, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.^{[citation needed]} His academic sword was crafted by the sculptor Philippe Besnard.

• The "Paix" of Aurillac: Study and Documents on the History of Municipal Institutions of a Consular Town ( ), Paris, 1945.

– Gobert Prize from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

• Agriculture in the Middle Ages from the End of the Roman Empire to the 16th century (with contributions from Raymond Delatouche), E. de Boccard, 1950.
• A Race, a Castle, Anjony, Paris, Picard, 1951.

• Officer of the Légion d'honneur (7 February 1952)^[3]
• Officier of Public Instruction
• Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit