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History of Siam in 1688
This book concerns the French intervention in Siam, 1685-1688, particularly the cataclysmic last year, during which Phetracha, the usurper and future king, held the ailing King Narai prisoner until his death. Marcel Le Blanc was...
ISBN: 9789749575291
more detailsA Pilgrimage to Angkor
The French travel writer and exotic novelist Pierre Loti (1850–1923), in his day the youngest member elected to the Academie Francaise, had dreamt of visiting the ruins of Angkor when, as a child, he came...
ISBN: 9789747100822
more detailsThe Diary of Kosa Pan
Thai Ambassador to France, June-July 1686
This account of Kosa Pan’s journal describes in great detail the arrival in Brest in 1686 of the first full Siamese embassy to reach France. This fragment is apparently all that survives of a massive...
ISBN: 9789747551587
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