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
Chevalier de Chaumont with the Jesuits presents a letter from Louis XIV to King Narai, in 1685.
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
Narai
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King Narai the Great, or Ramathibodi III, was the 27th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom, the 4th and last monarch of the Prasat Thong dynasty. He was the king of Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1656 to 1688 and ar
Guy Tachard
…the Caribbean (Antilles) with Jean II d'Estrées. Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch. Tachard was sent in 1685 with five other Jesuits under Superior Jean de Fontaney, on a first…
Statue of Narai the Great, created in 1966, near Lopburi provincial hall
Prince Narai’s coup d’état against his uncle, King Si Suthammaracha. Painting by Nai Im, commissioned by King Chulalongkorn in 1887.
King Narai of Siam on the throne (portrait, c. 1686).
Memorial plate in Lopburi depicting King Narai with French ambassadors.