Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Maurice M. Durand (Hanoi, 2 August 1914 – 1966) was a French-Vietnamese linguist.His father, Gustave Durand, was chief translator of Vietnamese at the Palais de Justice, Hanoi, was from Provence and his mother from Kien An. He studied in France and married a Belgian violinist named Sylvie Durand. During World War II he was an officer in Cameroon and Chad. In 1946 he returned to Vietnam to teach at and then direct the École française d'Extrême-Orient. On his return to France he taught Vietnamese at the École pratique des Hautes Études.He bequeathed his, and his father's, collection of publications, transliterations, photographs, research notes, and microfilm to Yale University, where they are now held in 121 boxes at the Sterling Memorial Library.. }
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- Maurice_Durand_(linguist) abstract "Maurice M. Durand (Hanoi, 2 August 1914 – 1966) was a French-Vietnamese linguist.His father, Gustave Durand, was chief translator of Vietnamese at the Palais de Justice, Hanoi, was from Provence and his mother from Kien An. He studied in France and married a Belgian violinist named Sylvie Durand. During World War II he was an officer in Cameroon and Chad. In 1946 he returned to Vietnam to teach at and then direct the École française d'Extrême-Orient. On his return to France he taught Vietnamese at the École pratique des Hautes Études.He bequeathed his, and his father's, collection of publications, transliterations, photographs, research notes, and microfilm to Yale University, where they are now held in 121 boxes at the Sterling Memorial Library.".