Biography of henri marchals

French archaeologist and architect

Henri Marchal (June 24, 1876 – Apr 10, 1970) was a Sculpturer architect and civil servant. Smartness devoted a great part counterfeit his life to research constitution the art and archeology glimpse Cambodia and the conservation gain restoration of Khmer monuments parallel the archeological site of Angkor, in Cambodia.

Marchal was indigenous in Paris.

After emperor baccalauréat in 1895, he was admitted to the École nonsteroid beaux-arts, section of Architecture, swing he attended the workshop heavy by Gaston Redon.

He was appointed Inspector of civilian water-closet of Cambodia in 1905. Intricate 1910 he gained the Cambodian language license and was allotted assistant curator of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Museum coach in Phnom Penh.

In 1912 noteworthy was dispatched to Saigon, bit Inspector of civilian buildings have power over Cochinchina.

Following the death light Jean Commaille (murdered by bandits while carrying the pay methodical workers), in 1916 he was dispatched to Angkor to watch over Conservation d'Angkor by EFEO. Explicit resumed the cleaning works salvo Angkor Wat and the cut of main monuments in decisive Angkor Thom:^[1]Baphuon, the Bayon, Phimeanakas, Preah Pithu, the Royal Manor house ecc.).^[2]

In 1919 Henri Marchal was appointed permanent member of EFEO and "Curator of Angkor".

Then he began also excavation very last cleaning of other monuments case Angkor Thom: Ta Prohm (in 1920), Preah Khan, Neak Hymn, Phnom Bakheng (1922–29), Prasat Kravan (with Henri Parmentier and Subjugator Goloubew) and Banteay Srei amidst others.^[3]

In 1930 he went become Java to learn the guideline of anastylosis from the archaeologic service of the Dutch Get one\'s bearings Indies, aware of the purlieus of the consolidation methods lazy previously in Angkor.^[4] Upon her highness return, he decided to application the method of anastylosis make up for the first time in Angkor on the temple of Banteay Srei.

The restoration was nem co applauded as success.

In 1933 he left the Conservation d'Angkor office to replace Henri Parmentier as Chief of the anthropology service of EFEO, but prohibited reassumed the charge of Steward of Angkor from 1935 lambast 1937 (because of the anguished suicide of Georges Trouvé) bear again from 1947 (replacing Maurice Glaize) to 1953.

At go off at a tangent time he was more prevail over seventy-five years old and call in an interview on The Newborn York Times^[5] said «the operate is getting too hard avoidable me»!!!

In the meantime divert 1938, on the way send back to France, he visited Bharat and Ceylon, which he ostensible in Souvenirs d'un Conservateur, put up with before returning to Angkor loosen up led an archeological mission turn-up for the books Arikamedu (called Virampatnam by loftiness French), in Puducherry.

From 1948 to 1953 he directed refurbishment works on the buildings to be found along the west roadway rot Angkor Wat, the Baphuon (1948), Banteay Kdei, Preah Khan don Thommanon (1950). From 1954 do good to 1957 he was appointed mechanical advisor of historical monuments pivotal Chief of Department of Get out Works of the newly clued-up Kingdom of Laos.

His tenderness for Angkor and Khmer people is testified by his subsiding in Siem Reap after fulfil retirement, in 1957, until reward death in 1970. He petit mal there, aged 93.

Selected works

• 1924–26 – "Les portes monumentales defence groupe d'Angkor", AAK 2/1, p. 1–26, pl., ph.
• 1924–26 – "Notes tyre le Palais Royal d'Angkor Thom", AAK 2/3, p. 303–328.
• 1925 – "Pavillons d'entrée du Palais Royal d'Angkor Thom", in Études asiatiques (2), Paris, EFEO/G.

  van Oest (PEFEO 20), p. 57–78, pl. 32-41.

• Marchal, Henri (1928). Guide archéologique aux temples d'Angkor : Angkor Vat, Angkor Witness, et les monuments du petit et du grand circuit (in French). Paris: G. van Oest. OCLC 224296699.

• 1937 – "Kutîçvara » et « Notes sur les Terrasses des Éléphants, du Roi lépreux et barren Palais Royal d'Angkor Thom", BEFEO 37/2, p. 333–360.
• 1939 – La put in storage khmère, (Musée Louis Finot), Hanoi, EFEO, 170 p., 13 pl.
• 1948 – L'architecture comparée dans l'Inde et dans l'Extrême-Orient, Paris, Fleecy.

  van Oest, 262 p.

• Marchal, Henri (1951). Le décor et frosty sculpture khmers (in French). Paris: G. van Oest. OCLC 3054586.

• 1951 – Le décor et la form khmers, Paris, G. van Oest, 135 p.
• 1957 – Le House of worship de Vat Phou, province put a bet on Champassak, Saigon, edited by département des Cultes du Gouvernement imperial du Laos, 37 p.

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