Moussons (Nov 2016)
La fin d’un oubli : chronique de la (re)découverte de la tombe d’Henri Maitre
Abstract
About a Southern Vietnam grove and the re-discovery of French explorer Henri Maitre tomb, first westerner to achieve a complete exploration of the Indochinese hinterland and to introduce ethnography in South East-Asia. His explorations and his destiny lead him to August the 2th 1914, when he and his twenty-six men are slayed in Bu Nơr by the Yok Laych plateau Mnôngs. From 1914 to 1936 the region falls inside an armed rebellion, the French can’t return on the tomb. In December 1940, André Baudrit and Théophile Gerber discover the tomb, then it falls again inside oblivion until June 2012 and its re-discovery in a southern Vietnam grove.
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