Publication seminar papers
The Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris recently published the papers of the Seminar (Orléans 11 October 1996) Autour de Flacourt in its publication series Etudes l'Ocean Indien.
In 1642 the French installed themselves in southeast Madagascar. Six years later the French governor, Etienne de Flacourt (1648-1655), was appointed to Madagascar. He was fascinated by Malagasy culture and started writing books that are still quoted today. His most famous publication is undoubtedly Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar that was re-edited and annotated by Claude Allibert (INALCO) in 1995.
The combined Etudes l'Ocean Indien publication number 23/24 comprises fifteen papers on southern Madagascar. They deal not only with the French episode in Malagasy history but also with linguistics, religion, and contemporary socio-cultural configurations in the south.
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