Auguste Pavie
Auguste Jean Marie Pavie (born May 31, 1847 in Dinan , † May 7, 1925 in Thourie , Département Ille-et-Vilaine ) was a French explorer and diplomat .
Pavie was in Cambodia from 1875 and there acquired extensive knowledge of customs and traditions as well as the Cambodian language . Between 1879 and 1895 he led a group of around 40 people who roamed La Mission Pavie along the Mekong through Laos and Cambodia as well as through Tonkin , Annam and southern China . They undertook ethnographic studies and mapped the area in order to prepare a telegraph line from Phnom Penh to Bangkok. They also kept books on the natural resources of the countries visited.
Pavie also initiated the Cambodgienne Mission , founded in 1885 , the predecessor of the École coloniale , which laid the foundation for the training of administrators for the French colonial empire .
From 1887 Pavie was the French vice consul in Luang Prabang until he was appointed French envoy to Bangkok in 1892 . There he was engaged in negotiations for France on the French annexation of Laos and parts of Cambodia. Towards the end of the 19th century, Pavie negotiated with China over the border with Laos.
Auguste Pavie died on May 7, 1925 in Thourie, Ille-et-Vilaine. The Pavie Ridge , a mountain ridge on the Antarctic Peninsula , is named after him.
Publications
- Mission Pavie en Indochine: 1879–1895 . 11 vols. Paris: Leroux 1898–1919.
- A la conquete des coeurs: le Pays des millions d'Eléphants . Paris: Presses Univ. de France 1942.
- German
- A peaceful conquest. Indochina 1888. Horst Erdmann Verlag, Herrenalb 1967
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| SURNAME | Pavie, Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pavie, Auguste Jean Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French explorer and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1925 |
| Place of death | Thourie , Ille-et-Vilaine |