Dear all,
if you take Google's ngram research tool (that takes the materials at Google Books as basis) and look for "indianisme", "indologie", "études indiennes" with search options "Language=French", "Date Range=1800-2000" you get the following graph:
So, in the majority of sources the red line with "indianisme" prevails. Of course, Google's text recognition isn't perfect, and it may occur that the language is wrongly assigned. But it shows a trend, nevertheless. You may click at the date ranges at the bottom to view the links in Google Books where the search terms can be located.
All the best
Peter Wyzlic
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Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften
Bibliothek
Universität Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 7
53113 Bonn
David Smith has asked that I post the following on his behalf:A quick look at gallica.bn.fr shows that in the Mercure de France, 15 May 1925, P. Masson-Oursel, in a section headed "Indianisme", notes in a footnote to p. 250 that the death of F. Lacôte is "une perte cruelle pour l'indologie".David SmithRetired Reader in South Asian ReligionsLancaster UniversityUKd.smith@lancaster.ac.ukMatthew KapsteinDirecteur d'études,Ecole Pratique des Hautes EtudesNumata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,The University of Chicago__________________________________________________________INDOLOGY mailing listINDOLOGY@list.indology.infohttp://listinfo.indology.info