French, University Professor of South-East Asian Studies and Council Member on Southeast Asia Studies

: A major scholar of Buddhism before he was 33 and a decorated lieutenant of machine guns, fighting in France, five years later. In his long and fruitful career he was successively a subsidized scholar, a soldier, a colonial official under Vichy, a commando, a secret agent, and the political advisor to a French general. (From: cseas.yale.edu.)

"The Vietnamese and Their Revolution," by Cyprien Mus and J.T. McAlister, Harper & Row Publishers, 1970.