Renaud Limelette, an engineer specialising in the analysis of historical and cultural sources, pursued his legal studies at the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences in Lille to become a legal historian.

Interested in legal culture during the Age of Enlightenment, he first studied military hospitals in the northern provinces under the supervision of Jean-Luc Lefebvre; then, upon joining the Centre for Judicial History (UMR 8025), Renaud Limelette, an engineer specialising in the analysis of historical and cultural sources, pursued his legal studies at the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences in Lille to become a legal historian.

Interested in legal culture during the Age of Enlightenment, he first studied military hospitals in the northern provinces under the supervision of Jean-Luc Lefebvre; then, upon joining the Centre for Judicial History (UMR 8025)