Georges Maspero
René Gaston Georges Maspero was a French sinologist.
He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and half brother of sinologist Henri Maspero.
A colonial governor of French Indochina, he was appointed résident-mayor of Haiphong, then acting resident superior of Cambodia. He subsequently chaired the restructured Banque Industrielle de Chine following its bankruptcy in 1921.
He was among the founders of the École française d'Extrême-Orient.