page_title: Louis Finot (archaeologist)
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Finot (archaeologist)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le musée Louis Finot à Hanoi 한국어: 하노이에 있는 베트남 역사박물관 Deutsch: Nationalmuseum zur Geschichte Vietnams in Hanoi, Architekt: Ernest Hébrard
context_page_description: Louis Finot was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. 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. In 1933 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
context_section_description: Louis Finot (1864 in Bar-sur-Aube - 1935 in Toulon) was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. 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). In 1933 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
caption: Site of the original École française d'Extrême-Orient (later named Musee Louis Finot) in Hanoi, Vietnam, now the National Museum of Vietnamese History
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