Lídia Armengol i Vila

According to WorldCat in 2020, Armengol has 15 works in 56 publications in 4 languages in library holding around the world.

Lídia Armengol died at the Hospital Nostra Senyora de Meritxell in Andorra la Vella on 26 November 1991 at 43 years of age, after a long illness. Her funeral was held the next day in the city's parish church of Sant Esteve (Església de Sant Esteve), attended by more than a thousand mourners.

In parallel with her political work, she continued her historical research, publishing numerous works about her country's Catalan language and culture. She was awarded the 1987 Principality of Andorra Prize, for Social Behaviors and Collective Mentalities: the Andorran ecclesiastical legacies of the 19th century.

During the government of prime minister Òscar Ribas Reig (1982 –1984), Armengol was appointed Director of Culture and Fine Arts. When the next government took over, the new prime minister, Josep Pintat i Solans, appointed her to the position of General Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Culture. In 1990, when Ribas returned to the top government post, she was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency.

In 1975 she created the National Library of Andorra and then the National Archives. Then, a year later, the General Counsel created the Institute of Andorran Studies and put Armengol in its leadership position. The Institute's aim was,

On 1 March 1973, she was appointed co-head of the country's Pedagogical Department, with Antoni Morell i Mora, and was later appointed General Secretary of the Department of Social Affairs, eventually heading the Department of Education, Culture and Sports.

Armengol was born in the old quarter of Andorra la Vella, the capital city of Andorra (a landlocked microstate in the Pyrenees mountains). She attended primary classes in a French school there and then went to the University of Perpignan in nearby France, where she continued her education at the Lycée Jean Lurçat. She graduated from the Spanish section of Letters in 1971. The following year she obtained her master's degree (Maîtrise d'Enseignement) at the same university. In 1978, she received the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in the specialty of Andorran Studies at the University of Perpignan. In 1984, she took a course in historical demography at the École d'Hautes Études de Sciencies in Paris, France.

Armengol was a promoter of the "Andorranization Program," which she proposed in 1970 when she was about 22 years of age. The program became the basis of the country's public school system which, in turn, led to widespread culture awareness.

Lídia Armengol i Vila (13 September 1948 – 26 November 1991) was an Andorran historian and civil servant who championed the restoration of her country's historic language and culture.