Luce Boulnois

Lucette Boulnois (1931–2009) was a French historian of the Silk Road and trans-Himalayan trade. Her career was book-ended by her seminal 1963 book ''La route de la soie'', which was translated into nine languages, and her 2001 elaboration on that work titled ''La route de la soie-dieux, guerriers et marchands''. UNESCO described her as "a world-renowned authority on the history of the fabled trade route". Provided by Wikipedia