{"id":356,"date":"2011-11-29T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/preserving\/?p=356"},"modified":"2011-11-29T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:51:31","slug":"guy-tachards-1685-voyage-to-siam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/2011\/11\/29\/guy-tachards-1685-voyage-to-siam\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Tachard’s 1685 Voyage to Siam"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1680s, King Narai of Siam, (1633-1688) sent several envoys\u00a0 to France\u00a0 with the hopes of\u00a0 establishing\u00a0 strong political and economic relations with France.\u00a0 King Narai’s motivation for this alliance was to deflect the growing Dutch trade and military\u00a0 influence in and around Siam.\u00a0 King Louis XIV reciprocated the honor of these special visits by sending his own embassy to Siam in 1685. \u00a0 King Louis XIV’s objective\u00a0 was to not only further commercial relations with\u00a0 Siam and encourage Chrisitian conversion in the East, but also to engage in a scientific expedition of Africa, the Indies, and China.\u00a0 Three members of the\u00a0 1685 voyage published their version of the events, with the Jesuit mathematician GuyTachard’s being the most influential and lasting account, eventually translated into English by 1688.\u00a0 This version is from an original French edition, published in 1687, and contains several fascinating prints depicting geography, culture, customs,\u00a0 flora and fauna from the journey.<\/p>\n

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At the Cape of Good Hope<\/p><\/div>\n

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Encountering Zeebras<\/p><\/div>\n

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King Narai on his elephant<\/p><\/div>\n

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Description:<\/dt>\n
Tachard, Guy. Voyage de Siam des p\u00e8res Jesuites, envoy\u00e9s par le roy,<\/dd>\n
aux Indes & \u00e0 la Chine :avec leurs observations astronomiques, & leurs<\/dd>\n
remarques de physique, de g\u00e9ographie, d’hydrographie, & d’histoire.<\/dd>\n
A Amsterdam : Chez P. Mortier, 1687.<\/dd>\n
Persistent Link:<\/dt>\n
http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL:5119535<\/a><\/dd>\n
Repository:<\/dt>\n
Widener Library<\/dd>\n
Institution:<\/dt>\n
Harvard University<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the 1680s, King Narai of Siam, (1633-1688) sent several envoys\u00a0 to France\u00a0 with the hopes of\u00a0 establishing\u00a0 strong political and economic relations with France.\u00a0 King Narai’s motivation for this alliance was to deflect the growing Dutch trade and military\u00a0 influence in and around Siam.\u00a0 King Louis XIV reciprocated the honor of these special visits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/preserving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}