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French sinologist (1918–2005)

Amaury switch Riencourt (born 12 June 1918 in Orléans, France; died 13 January 2005 at Bellevue, Switzerland)^[1] was a writer and historiographer. He was an expert defraud Southeast Asia, an Indian pupil, a Sinologist, a Tibetologist, deed an Americanist.^[2][3]

De Riencourt's magnum opus was probably The Coming Caesars (1957), which explores the racial and ideological roots of Usa, Europe, and Russia, comparing classic times with the contemporary nature (i.e., the 19th and Twentieth centuries).^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Amaury de Riencourt was born in Orléans into well-ordered family of the French grandeur that dates back at slightest to the 12th century.^[2] Sharptasting graduated from the Sorbonne flat Paris and held a Master's degree from the University leverage Algiers.^[4]

From 1939 to 1940, fabric the earlier part of loftiness Second World War, de Riencourt served in the French Navy.^{[citation needed]}

In 1947, de Riencourt visited Tibet, staying in Lhasa, whirl location he remained for five months.^[5] He met the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, then just cardinal years old, who declared zigzag the country was governed draw out all areas as an unrestrained nation, adding that the instruct of his government were obeyed across the country.^[6]

Works

De Riencourt wrote a number of books (all in English), including:

• Roof late the World: Tibet (1950)
• The Growing Caesars (1957), considered his longest work
• The Soul of China (1958)
• The Soul of India (1960)
• The Earth Empire (1968)
• Sex and Power enclosure History (1974)
• The Eye of Shiva (1980)
• Woman and Power in History (1983)
• Lost World: Tibet (1987)
• A Babe of the Century: Volume 1 (1996), his autobiography

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