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See also:JEAN See also:MARIE See also:ANTOINE DE See also:LANESSAN (1843– )
, See also:French statesman and naturalist, was See also:born at Sainte-See also:Andre de Cubzac (See also:Gironde) on the 13th of See also:July 1843
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He entered the See also:navy in 1862, serving on the See also:East See also:African and See also:Cochin-See also:China stations in the medical See also:department until the Franco-See also:German See also:War, when he resigned and volunteered for the See also:army medical service
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He now completed his studies, taking his doctorate 19
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1872
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Elected to the Municipal See also:Council of See also:Paris in 1879, he declared in favour of communal See also:autonomy and joined with See also:Henri See also:Rochefort in demanding the erection of a See also:monument to the Communards; but after his See also:election to the Chamber of Deputies for the 5th See also:arrondissement of Paris in 1881 he gradually veered from the extreme See also:Radical party to the Republican See also:Union, and identified himself with the cause of colonial expansion
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A See also:government See also:mission to the French colonies in 1886–1887, in connexion with the approaching Paris See also:exhibition, gave him the opportunity of studying colonial questions, on which, after his return, he published three See also:works: La Tunisie (Paris, 1887); L'Expansion coloniale de la See also:France (ib., 1888), L'Indo-Chine frangaise (ib., 1889)
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In 1891 he was made See also:civil and military See also:governor of French Indo-China, where his See also:administration, which involved him in open rupture with See also:Admiral See also:Fournier, was severely criticized
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Nevertheless he consolidated French See also:influence in See also:Annam and See also:Cambodia, and secured a large See also:accession of territory on the See also:Mekong See also:river from the See also:kingdom of See also:Siam
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He was recalled in 1894, and published an See also:apology for his administration (La Colonisation francaise en Indo-Chine) in the following See also:year
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In the Waldeck-See also:
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