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Pierre Brocheux

Pierre Brocheux

Vietnamese-French historian and editor (1931–2022)

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]

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Biography

Brocheux 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

  • Histoire de l'Asie du Sud-Est : révoltes, réformes et révolutions (1981)
  • Indochine, la colonisation ambiguë (1995)
  • Hô Chi Minh (2000)
  • Viet Nam Exposé.French Scholarship on Twentieth Century Vietnamese Society (2002)
  • Hô Chi Minh, du révolutionnaire à l’icône (2003)[7]
  • Une histoire économique du Viet Nam : 1850-2007 : la palanche et le camion (2009)
  • The Mekong Delta. Ecology, Economy and Revolution. 1860-1960 (2009)
  • Histoire du Vietnam contemporain : la nation résiliente (2011)
  • Les décolonisations au XXe siècle : la fin des empires européens et japonais (2012)

References

  1. [1]
    "Brocheux, Pierre". Library of Congress.
  2. [2]
    "Pierre Brocheux". Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire (in French). Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.
  3. [3]
    Nguyen, Rosie (2023-01-02). "Pierre Brocheux - A Celebrated Vietnamese-French Historian". Vietnam Times. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  4. [4]
    "Biographie". decitre.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.
  5. [5]
    "L'économie et la société dans l'ouest de la Cochinchine pendant la période coloniale : 1890-1940". Système universitaire de documentation (in French).
  6. [6]
    "Disparition de notre collègue Pierre Brocheux (1931-2022)". Société française d'histoire des outre-mers (in French). 27 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  7. [7]
    "Pierre Brocheux, Ho Chi Minh, du révolutionnaire à l'icône [compte-rendu]". Persée (in French).
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