CONTES ET CROQUIS TONKINOIS. [TONKIN STORIES AND SKETCHES.]
LAUMONIER, Henri.
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Hanoi-Haiphong 1909, Imprimerie D'Extreme-Orient.Black cloth spine over title boards, very clean, solid, French text, 139 pages, 16.65 x 25 cm. FIRST & ONLY EDITION *** *** *** . . * WHO WAS HENRI LAUMONIER: He was President of the Chamber of Agriculture, director and editor of the newspaper L'Avenir du Tonkin . He founded the newspaper France Indochina in 1919. * * THE CONTENTS IN FRENCH:: Hoa-Moc; Une cendrillon Tonkinoise; L'orage; Le bon tigre; Le marchand de bonheur; Demeures Annamites; Le bon ministre; La pièce d'eau; Neptune marie son fils; La pagode; Famille Annamite; Ba-Kinh-Tam la résignée; Conte de Noël; L'école; La nommée Capoue; Le marché; Le crapaud et de rat; la rivière; Le devin et le potard; La forêt; L'étudiant et la chanteuse; La plaine; Le trésor de la vieille usurière; Le Têt; Le chevalmerveilleux; Les enfants; Le droguiste; La fête des enfants; L'épouse dévouée; Les morts; Fleur de tombe; Le chemin de fer; La fille ingrate; Concours agricole; Songe de Noël; Le petit lac; L'exorcisme; L'aurore; & Crépuscule. . *** ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE CONTENTS: . Hoa-Moc; A Tonkinoise cinderella The storm The good tiger The merchant of happiness Annamite dwellings The good minister The room of water Neptune married his son The pagoda Family Annamite Ba-Kinh-Tam resigned her Christmas tale The school The name of Capua The market The toad and rat River The soothsayer and the knife The forest The student and the singer The plain The treasure of the old usurer The Tet The horse Children The druggist Children's Day The devoted wife The dead Flower of the grave The railroad The ungrateful girl Agricultural competition Christmas Dream The small lake Exorcism Dawn Twilight . *** The Tonkin Expeditionary Corps: In French "Corps Expéditionnaire du Tonkin"] was an important French military command based in northern Vietnam [Tonkin] from June 1883 to April 1886. . The expeditionary corps fought the "Tonkin Campaign" [1883-86] taking part in campaigns against the Black Flag Army and the Chinese Yunnan and Guangxi Armies during the "Sino-French War" [August 1884-April 1885] and the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded it [August 1883-June 1884], and in important operations against Vietnamese guerrilla bands during the subsequent "Pacification of Tonkin" [May 1885-February 1886]. Above extrated from Wikipedia, see below. . *** REFERENCES: WorldCat cites this: lc/7045162&referer=brief_results * TONKIN EXPEDITIONARY CORPS.: e this article for a comprehensive list of Commanders and campaigns. . *** BOOKS BY LAUMONIER: Laumonier was also the author of books: . Contes et croquis Tonkinois, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 1909 . Au Tonkin. Au temps des embuscades, 1890-1895, Imprimerie de l'Avenir du Tonkin, 1912 . Veuves de héros, pièce en quatre actes, Imprimerie G. Taupin et Cie, 1916 * . ***. Seller Inventory # 36078401
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