Reread and "give to see" the poem Lục Vân Tiên by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu. A short history of the rediscovery of an unpublished illuminated manuscript (1897) and its critical edition (2016)

Auditorium of the Cernuschi Museum at 18H00. Reread and "give to see" the poem Lục Vân Tiên by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu. A short history of the rediscovery of an unpublished illuminated manuscript (1897) and its critical edition (2016) by Pascal Bourdeaux, Lecturer, École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Presentation of the translated and commented publication of an unpublished illuminated manuscript of the poem Lục Vân Tiên rediscovered at the library of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres (Paris) in which a painter of the court of Huê (Lê Đức Trạch) managed to represent in a figurative form the virtues and beauties of Confucianism and culture Southern Vietnam while remaining faithful to the original work of Nguyễn Đình Chiểu (1822-1888).