Le Tonkin : vue photographiques du Tonkin prises par M. le Docteur Hocquard, Médecin-Majeur. 1884-1885.

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Hocquard, Charles-Edouard, 1853-1911. Le Tonkin : vue photographiques du Tonkin prises par M. le Docteur Hocquard, Médecin-Majeur.

Le Tonkin : vue photographiques du Tonkin prises par M. le Docteur Hocquard, Médecin-Majeur. 1884-1885.

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Charles Edouard Hocquard arrived in Tonkin in 1884 as a Médecin-Majeur in the French army, the same year that Tonkin (the northern part of Vietnam) became a French protectorate. These photographs date to the era directly after the Tonkin War, when France was engaged in a struggle with the Chinese rulers of Tonkin for control of the Protectorate. The images in these four volumes of photographs illustrate this conflict and document the various peoples, buildings and scenes found in Tonkin.

4 albums (200 albumen photoprints) ; 36 x 27.5 cm.

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