Louis Frédéric

[1] He was a specialist in the cultures of Asia, especially India and Japan.

He studied at the Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Louis-Frédéric wrote many books on India, Japan and Southeast Asia.

He was the editor of the 10-volume Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations which was published in eight editions in English between 1977 and 1987.

[2] Louis-Frédéric's Japan Encyclopedia is published by the Harvard University Press;[3] and it has six editions in English and French between 1996 and 2005.