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THE MONUMENTS
OF
THE ANGKOR GROUP
by
Maurice Glaize
A translation from the 4th French edition.
Synthesis should be made from time to time, so that writers may pass on the work of the specialists to a wider public.
A. Maurois
Dedicated to Henri PARMENTIER in admiration of his work.
PREFACE TO THE 4TH FRENCH EDITION
Published in 1944 in Saigon, republished in 1948 and again in Paris in 1963, for the "Angkor Group" - notably in the "rebirth" of Banteay Samre, for the sanctuary
“The Monuments of the Angkor Group” by Maurice Glaize remains the most of Neak Pean, and the "resurrection" of the sanctuary of the Bakong.
comprehensive of the guidebooks and the most easily accessible to a wide public,
dedicated to one of the most fabled architectural ensembles in the world. It would, however, be unsatisfactory to simply republish a work written now
some fifty years ago without some form of amendment. All manner of events have in
In his preface to the first edition, es Cœdes (1886-1969), the the mean time intervened that impose necessary revision - although, in terms of the
unchallenged master of Khmer studies and the then director of the École Française Author’s thoughts, those responsible have made the request that any alteration
d'Extrême-Orient, wrote: should be as discrete as possible. These factors derive as much from the unhappy
events resulting from ongoing political changes as from events directly affecting the
"Maurice Glaize’s guide, more than a quarter of which is devoted to monuments themselves. On the one hand, there has been the abrupt and rapid
fundamental ideas concerning the history of the country, its religions, the meaning decline, since 1945, in the state of some of the better known temples, such as the
and evolution of the monuments, their architecture and their decoration, the Baphuon and Angkor Wat - symbolic of the highest achievement of Khmer classicism.
sculpture, and finally to the work of the Conservation d'Angko