Amaury de riencourt biography of michael

French sinologist (1918–2005)

Amaury de Riencourt (born 12 June 1918 in Orléans, France; died 13 January 2005 at Bellevue, Switzerland)^[1] was a writer and historian.

He was an expert on Southeast Asia, an Indian scholar, a Sinologist, a Tibetologist, and an Americanist.^[2][3]

De Riencourt's magnum opus was probably The Coming Caesars (1957), which explores the ethnic and ideological roots of America, Europe, and Russia, comparing classical times with the contemporary world (i.e., the 19th and 20th centuries).^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Amaury de Riencourt was born in Orléans into a family of the French nobility that dates back at least to the 12th century.^[2] He graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris and held a Master's degree from the University of Algiers.^[4]

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