BOULNOIS, Jean Raymond Paul. Berville-en-Caux, Normandy 19.3.1904 — Philippeville, Algeria 1956. French Physician interested in India. Son of Paul Boulnois (1868–1949) and Louise Léonie Ehrer (1872–1962), both teachers. Dr.Med. 1928 Bordeaux. First served as colonial physician in Côte d’Ivoire, in 1932-35 at French settlements in Tamilnadu and Bengal, then in Algeria. He was much interested in ethnography and popular religion, but no critical scholar. Married 1927 Lucette Fichet (1907–1991, divorce 1946), one son and one daughter (historian Lucette Boulnois, 1931–2009), and 1946 Mery Germaine Adida (1912–2002), two sons.
Publications: Le caducée et la symbolique dravidienne indo-méditerranéenne de l’arbre, de la pierre, du serpent et de la déesse-mère. 176 p. P. 1939; new ed. with an index ed. by his daughter. 194 p. P. 1989.
– Gnon-Sua, dieu des Guérés: Mœurs et croyance d’une peuplade primitive de la Forêt Vierge. 132 p. P. 1933; with Boubou Hama: L’empire de Guo; histoire, coutumes et magie des Sonini. 182 p. P. 1954; a few further works.
Sources: Roşu, review of the 1989 book, JEAS 2, 1992, 188f.; stray notes in Internet; now (2025) French Wikipédia..
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