Other tools


CLUC, Flickr / (CC-BY-NC-ND)

The Library of the Maison de l'Asie has developed its own page on the Netvibes platform. It allows access to the main catalogs and search engines in Asian research, links to free-access electronic resources and also those available inside the library's reading room, it also provides handpicked webpages chosen by the librarians and a selection of websites of the main East Asian libraries in France.

EFEO News
Inventory of Thai yuan and Thai lü Manuscripts
Paris, France, 29 January 2021
EFEO Paris library is pursuing publication online, on Calames, of the inventories describing its collections of manuscripts. From now on, you can explore the inventory of Thai yuan and Thai lü Manuscripts, recently updated.

Read more
 READ MORE
Photolibrary: the Françoise L'Hernault collection
Paris, France, 25 January 2021
The photographs from the Françoise L'Hernault collection, a specialist in South Indian art history and religious iconography, are online.

Françoise L'Hernault (1937-1999) spent two years at the University of Annamalai (Tamil Nadu) before joining the EFEO in 1971. Alone or accompanied by photographers with professional equipment, she methodically travels the Tamil country and gathers an exceptionally rich and rare photographic documentation: sculptures that have disappeared, monuments that have now been transformed by abusive renovations...
 READ MORE
EFEO library's restoration workshop
Paris, France, 21 January 2021
A student trainee in bookbinding and restoration training is working in the EFEO library's restoration workshop on a selection of books from the "Travel" category of the EFEO's collections on the theme of Japan.

Learn more
 READ MORE
Asian Treasures of the EFEO
Paris, France, 12 January 2021

Discover "Les paysans de la forêt à travers le regard d'un ethnographe: le fonds photographique de Jean Boulbet au Sud Vietnam, 1947-1963" presented by Catherine Scheer and Isabelle Poujol, 1st video of the series "Asian Treasures of the EFEO" created to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the EFEO!
New publication
Paris, France,


Les scolastiques indiennes : Genèses, développements, interactions, Émilie Aussant et Gérard Colas (éd.), Études thématiques 32, Paris, EFEO, 2020, 326 pages.

READ MORE