Essay: Hanoi: La Folie des Grandeurs
Around the time Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly, under the orders of Emperor Napoléon III, fired the first canon shots to lay claim to what would become France’s colony of Indochina, Paris embarked on an epic renovation project directed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, also under the Emperor’...
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| Language: | English |
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Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pazifische Studien e.V.
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Pacific Geographies |
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| Online Access: | http://pacific-geographies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PG51_Burchett.pdf |