Auguste Chapdelaine
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Auguste Chapdelaine, Chinese name Mǎ Lài was a French Christian missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. France used his death – Chapdelaine was executed by Chinese officials – as a casus bel
Auguste Chapdelaine
Martyrdom of Auguste Chapdelaine.
Casus belli
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A casus belli is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war. A casus belli involves direct offenses or threats against the nation declaring the war, whereas a casus foederis i
Auguste Chapdelaine
…was a French Christian missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. France used his death – Chapdelaine was executed by Chinese officials – as a casus belli for its participation in the Second Opium War. Chapdelaine was born on a farm in La Rochelle-Normande, France. By the age of twenty, he had entered the…
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