Pierre Brocheux
Pierre Brocheux (18 May 1931 – 25 December 2022) was a Vietnamese-French historian and editor.[1] He specialized in the history of Vietnam and of French Indochina.[2] BiographyBrocheux was born in Cholon (nowadays Ho Chi Minh City) in French Indochina on 18 May 1931 to a French father and a Vietnamese-French mother.[3] He attended primary and secondary school in Saigon and Paris. A certified professor, he taught history and geography to secondary school students in Saigon from 1960 to 1968.[4] He then taught the same subject at a secondary technical school in Vitry-sur-Seine from 1968 to 1970. Brocheux earned a doctorate in history from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1969.[5] Afterwards, he worked as a lecturer at Paris Diderot University from 1970 to 1997. From 1989 to 2001, he was editor-in-chief of Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises. In 1994, he co-founded the Association française des chercheurs sur l'Asie du Sud-Est, of which he served as president from 1994 to 1997. Brocheux died on 25 December 2022, at the age of 91.[6] Publications
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