George Groslier was a French polymath who - through his work as a painter, writer, historian, archaeologist, ethnologist, architect, photographer and curator - studied, described, popularized and worked to preserve the arts, culture and history of the Khmer Empire of Cambodia.
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Portrait of George Groslier, from an advertisement for the wine Vin Mariani that appeared in the publication Femina (a French women's magazine issued from 1901 to 1954), shortly after the publication of his book on Cambodian dance
Groslier's mentor, Albert Sarraut, in 1917
The National Museum of Cambodia (2013)
André Malraux in 1933, after establishing his reputation as a prominent left-wing writer, which had begun in the aftermath of the infamous "Banteay Srei" incident
The temple of Banteay Srei in 2009
Jean Decoux, Governor-General of French Indochina from 1940 to 1945, photographed in 1919
Statue of George Groslier at the Royal University of Fine Arts (formerly the School of Cambodian Arts) in Phnom PenhWriters from France 6
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George Groslier was a French polymath who - through his work as a painter, writer, historian, archaeologist, ethnologist, architect, photographer and curator - studied, described, popularized and worked to preserve the arts, culture and history of the Khmer Empire of Cambodia. Born in Phnom Penh to a French civil servant - he was the first French child ever born in Cambodia - Groslier was taken by his mother to France at the age of two and grew up in Marseille. Aspiring to become a painter, he tried but failed to win the prestigious Prix de Rome. Shortly afterwards, he returned to Cambodia, on a mission from the Ministry of Education. There he met and befriended a number of French scholars of traditional Cambodian culture. Under their influence, he wrote and published, in France in 1913, his initial book on this subject: Danseuses Cambodgiennes - Anciennes et Modernes. It was the very first scholarly work ever published in any language on Cambodian dance. He then returned to Cambodia, traveling the length and breadth of the country to examine its ancient monuments and architecture. From this experience came his book A l'ombre d 'Angkor; notes et impressions sur les temples inconnus de l'ancien Cambodge. In June 1914, Groslier enlisted in the French army and was employed as a balloonist in the early part of World War I. It was during this time that he met and married sportswoman Suzanne Cecile Poujade; they eventually had three children.
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