About Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye
Lived 1819 – 1873 (aged 54). Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye was a French catholic priest and missionary.
Théophile Le Grand de la Liraÿe (1819–1873) was a French Roman Catholic priest, later defrocked, in Vietnam at the time of Charles Rigault de Genouilly's invasion of Vietnam in 1858. He compiled a French-Vietnamese dictionary.
Publications 1866: Notes historiques sur la nation annamite 1874: Dictionnaire élémentaire annamite-français; 2nd ed. Prononciation figurée des caractères chinois en mandarin annamite; autographié par Trâñ Ngu'oń Hanh, d'après le manuscript original du P. Legrand de La Liraÿe
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Who was Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye?
French priest (1819-1873)
When was Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye born?
Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye was born on 25 July 1819 in Mauves-sur-Loire.
When did Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye die?
Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye died on 7 August 1873 in Ho Chi Minh City.
What was Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye's occupation?
Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye was a catholic priest and missionary.
What nationality was Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye?
Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye was French.
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