In the summer of 1984, I contacted Professor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and asked him, was an article published in 1954 in Cahiers internationaux – Revue internationale du monde du travail his?
The full citation was: « La Conquête de l’Indochine et le capital financier (1873-1885),” Cahiers internationaux – Revue internationale du monde du travaill – n° 56-57, Mai-juin 1954, pp. 75-76.
It was published under the pseudonym Pierre Chavanay.
Le Roy Ladurie mentions this article on page 118 of his Paris-Montpellier: P.C. – P.S.U. 1945-1963 (Gallimard, 1982). He referred to an article which he did not give the title of that was published in the mid-1950s (“est paru au milieu des années 1950”).
Yes, it was his, he told me.
He asked me if I would send him a copy. He had lost his.
I am posting the full article here. I have also posted:
the original article:
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, ‘La conquete de l’Indochine et le capital financier’
my article on Le Roy Ladurie:
“Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (Bernard),” Current Biography, July 1984
Roger W. Smith, ‘Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’ – Current Biography, June 1985
Roger W. Smith, ‘Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’ – Current Biography, June 1985
Le Roy Ladurie’s obituary:
“Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94,” By Jonathan Kandell, The New York Times, November 23, 2023
Emanuel Le Roy Ladurie obit – NY Times 11-23-2023
— posted by Roger W Smith
December 2023
