Background
His father, Gustave Durand, was chief translator of Vietnamese at the Palais de Justice, Hanoi, was from Provence and his mother from Kien An.
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Maurice Durand
Edit Profilelinguist officer translator of Vietnamese
Education
He studied in France and married a Belgian violinist named Sylvie Durand.
Career
During World 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.
