Born December 15 1883. Died on March 17 1945 in Buchenwald, during deportation.
Education and professional career
- Lycées Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand
- Bachelor of Arts
- 1902 : Licencié ès lettres
- 1907 : Law degree
- 1907 : Graduate of the École des Langues Orientales
- 1908-1914 : Boarder, then professor at the École française d'Extrème-Orient
- 1919-1945 : Professor of Chinese language and literature at the Collège de France
- 1938 : Professor at the Institut des hautes études chinoises
Awards and distinctions
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
- 1935 : Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
- 1944 : President of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
- Medal of the French Resistance, posthumously