Paul Pelliot was a French sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. A pupil of Sylvain Lévi, Pelliot conducted only one archaeological expedition into Central Asia. Pelliot worked at École Française d'Extrême Orient in Hanoi, from where he was dispatched in 1900 to Beijing to search for Chinese books for the Ecole's library. While there, he was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of foreign legations. Wikipedia
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