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He was born in [[Aubais]] in 1885.
Having graduated from the [[University of Montpellier]] with a degree in history he began his distinguished career in the [[French Ministry of Fine Arts]] soon afterward. He served in the [[French army]] during [[World War I]]. In 1925 Grousset was appointed adjunct conservator of the [[Musee Guimet]] in [[Paris]] and secretary of the ''[[Journal asiatique]]''. By 1930 he had published five major works on Asiatic and Oriental [[civilizations]]. In 1933 he was appointed [[Technical director|director]] of the [[Cernuschi Museum]] in Paris and [[curator]] of its Asiatic [[art]] collections. He wrote a major work on the Chinese [[buddhist]] medieval pilgrim [[Huien Tsang]], particularly emphasising the importance of his visit to the northern Indian buddhist university of [[Nalanda]].<ref>Rene Grousset. In the Footsteps of the Buddha. JA Underwood (trans) Orion Press. New York. 1971</ref>
Before the outbreak of [[World War II]], Grousset had published his two most important works, ''[[Histoire des Croisades]] ''(1934-1936) and [[L'Empire des Steppes]] (1939). Dismissed from his museum posts by the [[Vichy government]], he continued his research privately and published three volumes on [[China]] and the [[Mongols]] during the war. Following the liberation of [[France]], he resumed his curatorship of the Cernuschi Museum and in addition was appointed curator of the Musee Guimet. In 1946, Grousset was made a member of the [[French Academy]]. Between 1946 and 1949 he published four final works, concentrating on [[Asia Minor]] and the [[Near East]].
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