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Threadmarks: The Scramble for Asia: Colonialism in the Far East in the 19th Century
"...de Lanessan dispatched more men into the Lao highlands as anti-Siamese sentiment flourished both in Saigon and on the French street at home; the regime, led primarily by the aggressive populist Boulanger at the War Ministry and foreign minister Courbet, who viewed Siam as a "miniature China"...