{{Short description|French university professor (1948–2020)}} {{Distinguish|Gilles Lellouche}} {{no footnotes|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = <!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC --> | name = Gilles Delouche | honorific_suffix = | image = Gilles Delouche (1948–2020).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = {{birth date|1948|08|03|df=y}} | birth_place = Orléans, France | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|01|20|1948|08|03|df=y}} | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | education = | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = <!--full-time positions only, not student positions--> | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Gilles Delouche''' (3 August 1948 – 20 January 2020) was a French scholar of classical literature of the Rattanakosin Kingdom (Thai language). Delouche, who was born in Orléans, was Professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) since 1987, having taught from 1971 to 1987 at the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University (Thailand), which awarded him an honorary degree.

Gilles Delouche served as president of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales from 2001 to 2005. His teaching focused on introductory Thai syntax, but also more particularly on Siamese versification and classical works, from their origins to the seventeenth century.

He was the author of some fifty articles published in French, English and Thai, concerning issues of the dating and restoration of classical Siamese manuscripts, as well as work on the origins of the first embodiment of Siamese unity in the first part of the Ayudhya period (1350–1656).

== Selected bibliography == * ''Le garçon en jaune safran'' (short story), by Sridaoruang, translated by Gilles Delouche, Jentayu, 2015 {{ISBN|978-2-9549892-1-1}} * ''La vieille'' (short story), by Angkarn Kalayanapong, translated by Gilles Delouche, Jentayu, 2016 {{ISBN|978-2-9549892-5-9}} * ''Pong'' (short story), by Korn Kraylat, translated by Gilles Delouche, Jentayu, 2016 {{ISBN|978-2-9549892-7-3}} * ''Méthode de thaï'', Gilles Delouche, L'Asiathèque, 1997, 248 pages (series Langues & Mondes), first edition: 1988 {{ISBN|2-901795-83-8}} * ''Le {{Interlanguage link multi|Nirat|fr}}, poème de séparation'', Gilles Delouche, Peteers, Louvain, 2003, 218 pages (series: Bibliothèque de l'INALCO) {{ISBN|2-87723-735-4}} (Paris) {{ISBN|90-429-1338-X}} (Louvain) * ''Étude d'un genre classique siamois une analyse d'un genre littéraire spécifique au Siam, le « nirat ».''

== External links == * [http://www.inalco.fr/enseignant-chercheur/gilles-delouche Notice] on the site of the Inalco * [http://editions-jentayu.fr/gilles-delouche/ Gilles Delouche] on Éditions Jentayu * [https://www.theses.fr/071507108 Thèses sous la direction de Gille Dellouche] on theses.fr

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