Georges Poisson (27 November 1924 – 14 May 2022) was a French art historian.

Poisson was born in Düsseldorf on 27 November 1924. A nephew of demographer Alfred Sauvy, and journalist Titaÿna, Georges Poisson was the son of journalist Claude Salvy (Marie-Madeleine Sauvy).

A curator of the musée de l'Île-de-France [fr] at château de Sceaux from 1948, Georges Poisson developed there the collections, created a documentation center, an educational service, organized exhibitions and concerts.^[1] At the same time, he carried out reorganization missions to the museums of Meudon (where the organization of the rooms was rethought,^[2]), Courbevoie, Dourdan, Blaye, etc. He was the initiator of the gift of bibliophile André Desguines's library to the department of Hauts-de-Seine.^[3]

A defender of monuments and sites, he led many successful campaigns: rescue, with Alain Decaux, of the château de Monte-Cristo, restoration of the Great Perspective of Meudon, decisive actions at Chateaubriand's home in the Vallée-aux-Loups [fr] (Châtenay-Malabry) and in that of Émile Zola in Médan.

Poisson died on 14 May 2022, at the age of 97.^[4][5]

Publications

Honours and titles

• Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
• Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• Great medal of art history of the Académie d'architecture
• honoris causa doctor of Sōka University at Tokyo
• Honorary President, co-founder of the Société Saint-Simon