Constantine Phaulkon
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Constantine Phaulkon —noted in a letter from Kosa Pan, to Father de La Chaise as being called Kastan —was a Greek adventurer who became chief minister to King Narai of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and assume
The French ambassador Chevalier de Chaumont presents a letter from Louis XIV to King Narai. Constance Phaulkon is seen kowtowing in the lower left corner of the print, making a gesture telling the ambassador to raise the letter up to the king.
Ban Wichayen (residence of Constantine Phaulkon), Lopburi, Thailand.
Guy Tachard
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Guy Tachard, also known as Père Tachard, was a French Jesuit missionary and mathematician of the 17th century, who was sent on two occasions to the Kingdom of Siam by Louis XIV. He was born in Marthon
Second voyage du pere Tachard et des Jesuites envoyes par le roy (1689)
Tachard, with Siamese envoys, translating the letter of king Narai to Pope Innocent XI, December 1688