Jacques Legrand

Jacques Legrand (born 29 June 1946) is a French linguist and anthropologist. He worked as a translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China from 1967 to 1968. He specializes in Mongolian literature and history and the Mongolian language.

Career Legrand was born on 29 June 1946 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine in western France. From 1967 to 1968, he worked as a translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China. Legrand has studied Mongol life from the dawn of man, noting that the Neolithic saw the practice of agriculture, fishing and breeding, whilst the Bronze Age initiated an evolution in the direction of a more and more exclusive pastoralism in the Mongolian plains, creating some marked paradoxes as it evolved. He noted that the nomadic empires of the Asian steppes are "based on an essential contradiction", because although deriving from nomadic peoples' need for organization, these peoples did not have the resources to support an actual state. and the International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations in Ulaanbaatar, which he chairs.