Subfonds FR-EBAF/AP/4 - François (Raymond in religion) Refoulé, o.p.

Born in Orléans, François studied law and history before entering the major seminary of his city. He only entered the Dominican Order in 1945, after two years of S.T.O. in Germany. He was ordained a priest in 1950. After an apostolate in Sweden, he was assigned to Éditions du Cerf in 1964 to direct theological and biblical collections. With Georges Casalis, he organized the TOB project from 1965. He was director of the Cerf from 1975 to 1979. He served as Director of the École Biblique from 1982 to 1984, when he had to take over the management of Le Cerf for one year.