Auguste Pavie

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Auguste Pavie (Dinan 1846 - Thourie 1925) was a French colonial civil servant, explorer and diplomat who was instrumental in establishing French control over Laos in the late 19th Century. After a long career in Cambodia and Cochinchina, Pavie became the first French vice-consul in Luang Prabang in 1886.


[edit] Bibliography

  • Auguste Pavie : Mission Pavie en Indochine, 1879-1895. 11 vols. Paris: Leroux, 1898-1919.
  • Auguste Pavie : A la conquête des coeurs: Le Pays des millions d'Eléphants. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1942.

[edit] References

  • Paul Le Boulanger: Histoire du Laos français, Essai d'une étude chronologique des principautés laotiennes. Librairie Plon, Paris, 1931
  • Grant Evans: A short History of Laos
  • Martin Stuart-Fox: Historical Dictionary of Laos
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