Whenever I
visited Paris I never missed to visit André at his home in rue Séguier, and
once also at his country house along with my family. By saying André I
implicitly also refer to his wonderful wife, Anne-Cécile (it is often true that
very close to each great man there also is a great woman). The last years of
André were deeply saddened by the tragic and absurd death of Anne-Cécile, yet
he found the courage and energy to continue, some way ot other, his life as a
man (or to be more precise, as a great gentleman) and a scholar. I bitterly miss the great man and scholar he was.
Raffaele Torella
Il giorno 17 lug 2017, alle ore 16:20, Isabelle Ratie via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> ha scritto:Indeed, he will be very much missed. André Padoux always claimed in his modesty that he was only a passionate dilettante who had accidentally come to be seen as a scholar, but he was of course much more than that - a great figure of French indology. My deepest condolences to his family.--Isabelle RatiéProfessor of Sanskrit Language and LiteraturesSorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris 3)_______________________________________________2017-07-17 14:34 GMT+02:00 Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>:This is very sad news indeed. More than a great, inventive scholar, André
was a magnificent human being. He will be very much missed.
Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago
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