found: Wikipedia, 6 June 2016(Jean Hougron; Jean Hougron (1 July 1923 in Calvados, France-22 May 2001, Paris France) was a French novelist, famous for a series of novels set in French Indochina in the mid-20th century, where he resided and travelled for several years; several of these novels are collected in a series named La Nuit Indochinoise ("The Indochina Night") and include several best sellers, such as Tu récolteras la tempête ("Reap the Wirlwind"); he began his professional life as a teacher of English and Sciences in north-western towns, then moved south to Marseille to work for one year with an import-export trading firm; this firm then sent him to Indochina in June 1947; from there on, he exercised several trades, travelling across Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Southern China, while learning to speak some of the regional languages; in 1949, he returned to Saigon, Vietnam, where he worked at the US Consulate and then at Radio France Asie, the Asian branch of the French state-owned radio broadcasting corporation; he returned to France in 1951)
