Philippe Édouard Foucaux

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Philippe Édouard Foucaux (1811-1894) was a French Tibetologist. He published the first Tibetan grammar in French. He taught at the Ecole des Langues Orientales, and a member of the Societe d'Ethnographie. Foucaux was married to Mary Summer, born Marie Filon, who also did work as a buddhologist. He was a corresponding member of the American Oriental Society form 1865.

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• 1858 Grammaire de la langue tibétaine. Paris: L'imprimerie impériale.

[edit] Works about Foucaux

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