Auguste Achille Hyppolyte Filoz

Auguste Achille Hippolyte Filoz (4 Nov. 1832-?) was a French Navy officer specializing in molding who took part in the 1873 Mission Delaporte and became a member of the ​“Société des Orientalistes” (Orientalist Society) after his journey through South-East Asia.

Traveling along Etienne Aymonier, he joined the Delaporte Mission at Angkor in September 1873, he stayed behind when the 150-strong expedition went back to Saigon, realizing casts and mouldings of bas-reliefs, returning back to Saigon on November 17, 1873. 

An independent free-thinker, he often criticized the French colonial administration, and his contribution as visual artist was not often granted the attention it deserved.