'Alfred Raquez' was the pseudonym of Joseph Gervais, a bankrupt French lawyer who fled to the Far East in the late 1890s and had access to some of the powerful players in French Indochina. He wrote prolifically about China and Indochina, took some of the earliest photographs of Laos and made the earliest field sound recordings in that land. He died under mysterious circumstances in Marseille in 1907. Confidence man, daring explorer, dashing bon vivant, proto-photojournalist and amateur ethnographer in equal parts, Raquez offers one of the more intriguing voices (not to mention mystery-filled yarns) of any commentator on the mix of ambitions and follies of of European colonial expansion into the Far East.
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https://www.routledge.com/Alfred-Raquez-and-the-French-Experience-of-the-Far-East-1898-1906/Gibson/p/book/9780367702489
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Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906
http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2021/04/alfred-raquez-and-french-experience-of.html
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Dispatch Twenty-Nine...the Final Dispatch is now online!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/dispatch-twenty-nine/
Dont’ miss out on the thrilling conclusion to Alfred Raquez’s mission through Laos in 1905!
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Dispatch Twenty-Five is now online!
The wait is over! Dispatch Twenty-Five is online!Join Raquez in the ancient salt producing region of Boten!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/dispatch-twenty-five/
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Dispatch Twenty-four is here!
Join Alfred Raquez in his amazing adventure through Laos in 1905! In this dispatch, he's in northern Laos en route to the salt wells of Boten, near the border with China.
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/dispatch-twenty-four/
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Dispatch Twenty-Three
The twenty-third dispatch from Alfred Raquez’s mission through Laos in 1905 is now online. Join the adventure today!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/dispatch-twenty-three
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Dispatch Twenty-one now online
Dispatch 21 is now online
Join Alfred Raquez as he travels through Upper Laos in 1905!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/dispatch-twenty-one/
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Dispatch 20 is now online
Join Alfred Raquez as he travels through Upper Laos in 1905!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/dispatch-twenty/
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Dispatch 19 is now online
Join the adventure in 1905 Laos today!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/dispatch-nineteen/
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Dispatch 18 now online
Meet the Tiao Fa of Muang Sing and visit the colorful weekly market in this remote town in the heart of the Golden Triangle in 1905 in the exciting eighteenth dispatch of Mission Raquez!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/dispatch-eighteen/
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Dispatch 17 is now online!
The seventeenth dispatch from Mission Raquez is now online! Join the adventure in 1905 Laos today!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/dispatch-seventeen/
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Dispatch 15 is now here!
Come along with Alfred Raquez on his expedition through Laos in 1905! Dispatch Fifteen of our on-going translation is now online here: https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/09/19/dispatch-fifteen
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Mission Raquez Dispatch 14
Now online!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/dispatch-fourteen/
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Dispatch 13 is online!
Check it out here and join the adventure!
With links to period phonograph records Raquez played on the trail!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/dispatch-thirteen/
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Mission Raquez Dispatch 12 is online!
Dispatch Twelve finds Raquez traveling overland to Muang Xai!
Join the adventure in 1905 Laos!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/dispatch-twelve/
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Dispatch Eleven is here!
Join Alfred Raquez on his journey through Laos in 1905!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/dispatch-eleven/
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The tenth dispatch is now online!
https://missionraquez.wordpress.com/2020/07/12/dispatch-ten/
Join Alfred Raquez on his adventure through Laos in 1905...
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