FRENCH-CHINESE WAR - THE TONKIN AFFAIR (1883-1886) - Lot 166

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FRENCH-CHINESE WAR - THE TONKIN AFFAIR (1883-1886) - Lot 166
FRENCH-CHINESE WAR - THE TONKIN AFFAIR (1883-1886) Set of photographs Three collections of photographic views taken by Dr. Charles-Edouard HOCQUARD, Chief Medical Officer of the French Expeditionary Corps, with the authorization of General Louis BRIÈRE DE l'ISLE, Commander-in-Chief of French troops in Tonkin. Each of the three collections contains 30 plates on which one or two albumen prints, taken from glass negatives and numbered and captioned in the plate, are pasted. Some browning on the covers of the collections and on the cardboard supports of the prints. Prints The prints collected and published in a portfolio by Henry CHEMWITZ 2, rue Cretet, Paris, are in the following formats: 22.5 cm x 17.5 cm and 16 x 10.5 cm, vertical or horizontal. The subjects Sites, local and religious life - Various villages, towns and localities. Gates of Hanoi citadel, pagodas. Annamite types and dancers, Tonkinese beauties, Chinese hairstyles, markets including Hanoi's dog market, work in the fields, potters, comedians, coolies, interpreters, Chinese scholars, silver bar founders, opium smokers, lepers, police court, criminals in the cangue. Pagodas, religious dignitaries, Catholic missions (Sonthay) Military subjects - General MILLOT and his staff, General BRIERE DE L'ISLE and his staff. Troops in arms, young Chinese enlisted by the French, trophies of weapons taken from the Black Flags, beheadings French warships: gunboat on the Red River, gunboat La Surprise off Ninh-Binh. Le Pluvier, marine infantry soldiers. Peace preparations, meetings, embassies and delegations.
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