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Henri Fontaine, the Glossary

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Henri Fontaine (20 July 1924 – 31 January 2020), was a French Roman Catholic missionary.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 26 relations: Archaeology, Bangkok, Bauxite, Coral, Devonian, French Indochina, Geologist, Gulf of Thailand, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoang Thi Than, Huế, Mainland Southeast Asia, Missionary, Normandy, Paleontology, Paleozoic, Paris Foreign Missions Society, Prehistory, Quaternary, River, Tertiary, Thailand, University of Paris, Vietnam, Yunnan.

  2. 20th-century French geologists
  3. 21st-century French archaeologists
  4. French expatriates in Vietnam

Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Bangkok

Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Coral

Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.

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French Indochina

French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1946 as the French Union, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin in the north, Annam in the centre, and Cochinchina in the south.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.

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Gulf of Thailand

The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula.

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Hanoi

Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.

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Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC; Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), commonly referred to by its former name Saigon (Sài Gòn), is the most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of around 10 million in 2023.

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Hoang Thi Than

Hoàng Thị Thân (born in 1944 at Phú Cường (Thủ Dâù Một, South Viêt Nam)) is the first woman to graduate from the Department of Geological Engineering of Laval University (Quebec, Canada), the first female Vietnamese geological engineer and archeologist.

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Huế

Huế is the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, located near the center of Vietnam.

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Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Paris Foreign Missions Society

The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris, short M.E.P.) is a Catholic missionary organization.

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Prehistory

Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.

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Quaternary

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.

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See also

20th-century French geologists

21st-century French archaeologists

French expatriates in Vietnam

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fontaine

Also known as Henri Fontaine (missionary and geologist).