A Relation of the Voyage to Siam Performed by Six Jesuits Sent by the French King to the Indies and China in the Year 1685

Langue : anglais

Edité par White Lotus, Bangkok, 1999

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The book describes the first French Embassy to Siam in 1685. The Embassy which set out on March 1685 was a remarkable event. It was triggered by the express request of the Siamese King Phra Narai, who for years had been extraordinarily interested in making contact with the King of France. Already at the end of 1680 Narai had sent a fully-fledged embassy to France on the 'Soleil d’Orient', a vessel of the French Oriental Company but this attempt ended disastrously when the ship foundered near the eastern coast of Madagascar with the loss of all people and its valuable cargo. This book, Guy Tachard's first, was quite influential. It was the first of a large number of French works concerning late-seventeenth century Siam. Apparently, it was avidly read: the first three French editions date from 1686, 1687 and 1688, the first edition in the Dutch language dates from 1687, this English version appeared in 1688 and an Italian edition came out in 1693. When Engelbert Kaempfer visited the Dutch trading station at Ayuthia in June and July 1690 he annotated the book and his later writing on Siam shows that he benefited from some of Tachard's observations. It was a work that helped stimulate the French appetite to invest in a short-lived military adventure. This book still deserves attention, its mixture of scientific curiosity, methodic enquiry and religious zeal is typical of the period. It is an exemplary document on Siamese seventeenth-century culture. Reprint of 1688 edition. 275 pp., 27 pp. illus. (New/unread copy; light tanning to covers as is common with this publisher's books.) Size: 21 x 15 cm.

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Titre
A Relation of the Voyage to Siam Performed by Six Jesuits Sent by the French King to the Indies and China in the Year 1685
Auteur
Tachard, Guy
Éditeur
White Lotus, Bangkok
Année de publication
1999
État de l'article
New
Jaquette
n/a
Reliure
Soft Cover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
9748434346
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9789748434346
Édition
Reprint.

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