Education
École Nationale des Chartes.
anthropologist archaeologist Librarian professor
École Nationale des Chartes.
A former director of the Ecole française d"Extrême-Orient, his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised. A bachelor of law and letters, Finot was admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes in 1886. He left it two years later with the title of palaeographer.
He worked initially as a trainee then as an assistant librarian with the French National Library and undertook studies of Sanskrit.
In 1898, he was named director of the archaeological mission in Indochina, which would become in 1900 the Ecole française d"Extrême-Orient (EFEO).
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]
In 1933 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.