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Beze, Claude De, 1657-1695 1688 REVOLUTION IN SIAM : The Memoir of Father De Beze, S. J.
Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press 1968 Paperback Good with no dust jacket
14 x 22 cm.; pg. xxiii,179 ; Translated into English, with introduction, commentary, appendices, and notes by E. W. Hutchinson. List of 18 illustrations + 3 maps, bibliography, index. "The Revolution of 1688 in Siam coincided with the so-called 'Glorious Revolution' of the same date in Great Britain when James II, his armies defeated and dispersed, took refuge in France and died in exile. Pra Narai of Siam, a sick man even before the outbreak, died two months later a prisoner in his own palace at Lopburi--displaced, but nominally 'The King'. The Revolution was followed by the reversal of an unpopular foreign policy--the dependence upon France, and at the same time, a severe rebuff was administered to King Louis' advisers who aspired to subert the national religion in Siam. The Memoir by Father de Bize, a Jesuit priest, was discovered in 1936 in the G. E. Morrison Library in Tokyo. It was written in response to a request by the author's Religious Superior for information and relates vividly the events which occured during the upheaval which involved the court, foreign powers as well as the Levantine adventurer, Constans Phalkon."
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