Guillaume-Henri Monod

Guillaume-Henri Monod (1875, Vaud Canton, Switzerland — 1946, Aix en Provence, France) was a French civil administrator, geologist and writer who spent nearly 30 years in Cambodia, collecting Cambodian folktales and authoring a Khmer-French dictionary.

After studying natural sciences in Paris, Monod went to Southeast Asia in 1895, becoming vice-director of the Service Service géologique de l’Indochine in 1898. He explored Yunan to draw a map of geological resources of the region. He retired from civil service in 1925, leaving then Cambodia to spend his retirement in the south of France. 

Publications

• Notice sur la région de Pursat, 1911, Phnom Penh.
• Légendes cambodgiennes que m’a racontées le gouverneur Khieu, 1922, Paris| English tr.: Women’s Wiles, 2013, DatASIA | repub. as Contes khmer, Cedoreck, 2004; La fondation d’Angkor et autres légendes cambodgiennes, 2016, Lausanne, Olizane, ISBN 978−2−88086−445−3 [illust. by Amélie Strobino]
• Quelques mots sur les Cambodgiens, 1923, Paris.
• Le Cambodgien, 1931, Paris, Ed. Larose.