ASSIER DE POMPIGNAN, Raoul-Henri. Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines) 2.6.1862 — Toulouse (or Paris?) 11.12.1947. French Naval Officer interested in Indology. Son of Louis Constant Adrien Assier de Pompignan and Marie Pauline Gastel. In 1884 graduated from École navale. In 1909 naval lieutenant, in the 1920s captain of frigate, in the 1930s retired, living in Tamaris-sur-Mer (Var), then in Toulouse. Officer of Légion d’honneur. Married 1890 Marie-Thérèse Cornette de Venancourt (1870–1893), then 1895 Margaret Mary Lawless (1872–1957), eight children.
Publications: Translated from Russian: Minaev, Recherches sur le bouddhisme. 317 p. A.M.G. Bibl. d’ét. 64. P. 1894.
– Editied, translated & annotated: Kālidāsa: Meghadūta (Le nuage messager). En appendice Rtusamhāra (Les saisons). 34+80+80 p. P. 1938.
Sources: Member lists in JA for 1909, 1924, 1929, 1934, 1938, 1948 (no more in 1951); gw.geneanet.org with photo. Neither in Arch. biogr. fr. nor in N.U.C.
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