Éric de Chassey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Éric de Chassey

French art historian

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1965

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: art historian, art critic

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Éric de Buretel de Chassey (born 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a French historian of French art, art critic, and professor of contemporary art history at François Rabelais University in Tours, France. Born in the United States to French parents, Benoît de Buretel de Chassey (1941–2012) and Brit Michon du Marais (born 1943), he was raised in France.
On 4 September 2009, he was named director of the French Academy in Rome, succeeding Frédéric Mitterrand.
He has been married since 2013 to actress Anne Consigny.