Misplaced Pages

Adhémard Leclère

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Adhémar Leclère)
This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Adhémard Leclère" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (January 2012) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the French article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Adhémar Leclère}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.

Adhémard Leclère (12 May 1853 – 16 March 1917) was a French colonial official, economist, politician, and ethnologist.

Biography

Born into the French anticlerical and republican tradition, Leclère became interested in socialism at an early age, and was involved in the foundation of the labour journal The Proletarian, of which he became editor-in-chief. A typographer, he founded Typographie Francaise (the official journal of the union of French workers), and collaborated with La Justice, La Revue Scientifique, La Deutsche Revue, and other foreign reviews.

In May 1886, Leclère was nominated a Résident (governor) in the French protectorate of Cambodia, first in Kampot (until 1890), then Kratie-Sambor (1890-1894), Kratie, and finally Phnom Penh, where he served as résident-maire from 1899 to 1903. In 1908, Leclère was named inspector and advisor to the Résident Supérieure (the chief advisor to the Cambodian government), a position which he occupied until 1911.

As founder and vice-president of the Ethnological Society of Paris, Leclère was responsible for numerous works on the language, customs, law, religion, and culture of Cambodia.


Flag of FrancePolitician icon

This French diplomat-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: