Michel Igout

Michel Igout is a French geographer who taught at several military academies in France and was an Associate Professor at the Institute of French Studies for Foreign Students at University of Aix-Marseille III (Law, Economics and Science), Aix-en-Provence, France.

As a special envoy to Cambodia from the International Cooperation Department, Ministry of National Education, he extensively visited Phnom Penh in the 1990s, serving as President of the Franco-Cambodian Solidarity Association and General Secretary of the Cambodian League for Human Rights. 

Author of several reports on the situation of post-war Cambodia for the European Commission (Brussels) and the French Ministry of Cooperation (Paris), he completed a major illustrated essay on Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh then and now (1993, 2001), which became a sought-after reference publication about the Cambodian capital city.

Publications

• Phnom Penh then and now, Bangkok, White Lotus, 1993, 179 p. [with photos by Serge Dubuisson, foreword by Prince Norodom Sihanouk] [online]; repr. 2001. | FR Phnom-Penh d’hier à aujourd’hui, id. [
• “Au pays du roi lépreux”, 1895, revue d’histoire du cinéma, numéro hors-série ​“Jacques Feyder”, 1998: 109 – 21.