Présentation de Denise Bernot, linguiste, ethnologue, traductrice, spécialiste de la Birmanie.Denise Bernot left us on Thursday 12 May 2016 in Antony (France). She was 94. Denise founded the Burmese chair at “Langues’ O” (INALCO Paris) in the early sixties, where she taught Burmese language and civilisation until 1990. As an archivist trained at the Ecole des Chartes, she began her CNRS career by making an inventory of works linked to Burma in the libraries of Paris. From her first stay with the Marmas in the Chittagong Hill Tracks along with her husband Lucien Bernot (Ethnologist at the Collège de France), she never lost her taste for fieldwork, for working through immersion. This at a time when we still spoke of East Pakistan…In addition ...