Mission Made Impossible: The Second French Embassy to Saim 1687 Asia it marked the end of

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Mission Made Impossible: The Second French Embassy to Saim 1687 Asia it marked the end ofTranslated, introduced and annotated by Michael Smithies Two years after the 1685 French embassy to Siam led by Chaumont and Choisy, King Louis XIV sent a second embassy to Phra Narai led by the two envoys La Loubere and Cberet, and a third unofficial emissary, Father Tachard, who was working behind the scenes and often against his colleagues. Accompanying them were expeditionary troops to be installed in Bangkok and Mergui once a Franco Siamese