Talk:Louis Vaillant

British Library Dunhuang Project editathon

Louis Vaillant is one of the subjects of a Dunhuang Project editathon at the British Library from 22-26 October 2012. Opbeith (talk) 11:01, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Son

It seems very likely that Albéric Vaillant, general of the Foreign Legion, was his son. See and which together give him father Louis Vaillant who was an army doctor. The first ref has the name of his mother. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:14, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

More circumstantial evidence - Louis's elder brother Alberic died on the battlefield in August 1914, six months before General Alberic was born in February 1915. Opbeith (talk) 20:31, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Indeed. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:39, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

By the way, various Google Books snippets describe Vaillant as an "ami d'enfance" of Pelliot. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:30, 1 November 2012 (UTC)