BONVALOT, Pierre Gabriel Édouard. Épagne (Aube) 13.7.1853 — Auteuil, Paris 10.12.1933. French Central Asian Explorer. Son of Pierre Bonvalot and Louise-Félicie Congniasse des Jardins, school in Troyes. In 1880-82 and 1886-87 expeditions to Russian Central Asia. In 1889-90 with Prince Henri of Orléans through Russia to Chinese Central Asia, then through…
ALLOTTE DE LA FUYE, François-Maurice. La Rochelle 6.11.1844 — Versailles 13.2.1939. French Officer, Archaeologist and Numismatist. Son of Brigadier General Augustin Allotte de La Fuÿe (1805–1876) and Susanne Louise Mariocheau de Bonnemort. Jules Verne was his cousin. After École polytechnique joined artillery, also studies at É.P.H.É. Captain 1870, participated in Franco-German war. Lieutenant-colonel…
ALFARIC, Prosper. Livinhac-le-Haut (Aveyron) 21.5.1876 — Paris 28.3.1955. French Historian of Religions. Professor in Strasbourg. Born as the oldest of seven children of a modest, deeply religious catholic viticulturist family, soon ruined by Phylloxera. With the help of local vicar he went to school and then to seminary St.Sulpice in…
OCHOA, Pierre Charles Olloba d’ (born P. Ch. Olloba). Bayonne 26.2.1816 — Paris 2.6.1846. French Traveller. Illegitimate son of Julie Belles. Educated in Bordeaux. Employed by a shipping company as clerk-trader he visited South India (Madras and Pondichéry) in 1835-36 and now developed an interest in Indian languages and literature. In 1839…
BOULANGER-MALONEY, Chantal. Paris 4.1.1957 — Kebili, Tunisia 27.12.2004. French Social Anthropologist working on South India. Educated in France, studied in Brighton and Japan, then anthropology and Tamil in Paris. In 1989-93 worked in American Museum of Natural History in New York. Then in France, but 1997 moved to London. Interested…
ROUSSEAU, Pierre Édouard Léon (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Physician, Composer and Painter. Son of a physician. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 physician in the army. After 1926 seriously ill (multiple myeloma). He was rather noted composer with wide production of different genres (including…
RENEL, Charles Ulysse. Strasbourg 6.5.1866 — Antanarivo 9.9.1925. French Philologist. The only child of Émile Louis Étienne Renel, a railway official, and Uranie Charlotte Henriette Lafite (d. 1878). After Franco-Prussian war the family moved to Épinal (Vosges). From 1884 studies in Paris, at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and from 1886 École normale supérieure,…
QUÉGUINER, Maurice René. Ploujean (Finistère) 11.7.1909 — Fontenay-lès-Briis near Paris 2.9.1977. Father. French Catholic Missionary in India. Studies at seminary of Quimper, then 1928-32 Missions etrangères, ordained priest 1932. In 1933-37 worked in Kalimpong, Sikkim, in 1937-39 and 1941-48 in Mysore. In 1952-60 in Unesco, 1960-74 Supérieur général of Missions etrangères,…
PRIEUR, Simon Léon Édouard. Bordeaux 11.2.1803 — 1848. French Colonial Official in India. Son of Alexandre Simon Prieur and Marguerite Jenny Dulphy. Teacher (professeur d’humanités) at Collège royal de Pondichéry and member of Conseil général in Pondichéry. Married 1841 Nancy Aimée Céléstine Lafauche (b. 1823), one son and one daughter. Publications: “Histoire du…
PIGNÈDE, Bernard. Paris 16.3.1932 — 21.11.1961, when 29. French Anthropologist of Nepal. Studies in Paris (É.P.H.É.), under L. Dumont, in 1958 seven months fieldwork among Gurungs in Nepal. Died in an accident before his only book appeared. In a review Fürer-Haimendorf praises its scholarly approach, although he conducted his fieldwork…