VAILLANT, Louis Auguste André Marie. Paris 26.11.1876 — Arras (Pas-de-Calais) 18.2.1963. French Army Physician, Naturalist and Explorer. Son of Léon Louis Vaillant (1834–1914), Professor of Zoology, and Henriette Jeanne Hovius, educated in Paris. Studied medicine at Bordeaux, graduated 1902 and became physician in French colonial army. In 1905-09 he travelled with Pelliot and Nouette in Central Asia, acting on behalf of the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle. He conducted his own studies of geography, zoology and botany and tried to give medical assistance to locals. Served in WW I as physician in colonial army in Vietnam. From 1920 health inspector in Arras. Medical Major. Légion d’honneur 1914, officer 1933. Married 1910 Marguerite Marie Henriette Thévenot (1885–1917), three children, and 1920 Cécile Henriette Marie Camille Clotet, again three children.
Publications: Diss. about snake poison, 1902.
– Travel account, Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’anthropologie de Paris 1910:1, 8-17; also wrote on Vietnamese ethnography.
Sources: academie-arras.fr with photo; Wikipedia with photo (more in French version); parents and family in gw.geneanet.org.
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