University Professor
www.ferriere.org
A specialist in the history of luxury in modern times and in particular culinary arts and food culture through innovation, as well as consumption and transformation patterns. After 5 years as a high school teacher, Marc de Ferrière became a curator and archivist at the Musée de l’Orfèvrerie Bouilhet-Christofle silverware museum on which he wrote his thesis. A former lecturer in economic history at the University of Lille 3, since 2004, he has been a Professor at François-Rabelais University in Tours, where he specialises in the history of food.
