Le lion de Lopburi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19428449 |
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| Authors | Michael Smithies (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-92 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aséanie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0859-9009 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/asean.1999.1643 |
| OpenAlex | W2050462981 |
| Language | EN |
King Narai of Siam made a point of sending exotic animals to Louis XIV all of which seem to have died en route if they were not off-loaded from overheavy boats in Ayutthaya, and his ambassadors visited the new royal menagerie at Versailles during their stay in France in 1686. Phra Narai received from the French Indies Company in 1684 a recycled gift of a lion, which was added to his menagerie in Lopburi ; its ressemblance to the Marshal of Turenne was remarked upon by some French visitors. Turenne died in 1675, but the fate of the lion, after Narai's death in 1688 and the abandoning of Lopburi as a royal residence, is not known
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Humanities · Menagerie · Residence · Sociology · West indies · Demography · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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