Author: LURO, JEAN BAPTISTE ÉLIACIN:
Title: Cours d'administration annamite. Saigon, Collège des Stagiaires, 1875.
Description: . Folio. Pp. (iv), 2-846. Hectograph text from manuscript in French and Chinese (characters and transcription). The text is divided into 45 lessons. Including three maps and a few drawings in the text. Inscribed by the author on the title. Contemporary marbled paperboards, cloth spine, rubbed and front hinge partly split. Scarce student work on Annamese administration and history. Luro was a French marine officer who resided for many years in Cochinchina, where he served as inspector of Indigenous Affairs 1867-77. He was the founder and the first professor at Tru'u'aeng Háu bô (Collège des administrateurs stagiaires) in Saigon. "Les cours du Collège ont été autographiés par des annamites d'après les manuscrits des professeurs, manuscrits souvent fort difficiles à lire, même pour des francais. On ne devra donc pas se laisser arrêter par les irrégularités de l'orthographe, les coquilles, les suppressions de phrases ou de membres de phrases. ... D'ailleurs l'emploi des annamites assure une grande correction dans l'autographie des langues ... "(according to the introduction). Cordier BI 1843 records an undated MS in 4to with pp. 799 + one table.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, annamese, cochinchina, cochin-china, vietnam, annam, travel, exploration, vietnamese, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, language, langue, linguistic, administration.


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