Cochinchine et Cambodge. Artist: Emile Gsell (French, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 1838-1879 Vietnam). Dimensions: 44.8 x 37.2 x 3.4 cm (17 5/8 x 14 5/8 x 1 5/16 in.). Date: 1866.The conquest of Saigon in 1859 by Admiral Rigault de Genouilly and the ensuing spread of French influence through Indochina and Cambodia was the first colonial success of the Second Empire. To commemorate the achievement the admiral, having become minister of the Navy, presented Empress Eugénie in 1867 with this luxuriously bound album of photographs entitled "Cochinchine et Cambodge." Comprising twenty-six images of Indochina and twenty-one of Cambodia, the album includes fifteen views of the ruins of Angkor. The photographs were made by M. Gsell, a Frenchman stationed in Saigon, of whom nothing more is yet known except that in June 1866 he accompanied the naval captain Doudart de Lagrée on a scientific mission along the Mekong River. The mission began with a photographic survey of Angkor.Reports of an abandoned

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Cochinchine et Cambodge. Artist: Emile Gsell (French, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 1838-1879 Vietnam). Dimensions: 44.8 x 37.2 x 3.4 cm (17 5/8 x 14 5/8 x 1 5/16 in.). Date: 1866.The conquest of Saigon in 1859 by Admiral Rigault de Genouilly and the ensuing spread of French influence through Indochina and Cambodia was the first colonial success of the Second Empire. To commemorate the achievement the admiral, having become minister of the Navy, presented Empress Eugénie in 1867 with this luxuriously bound album of photographs entitled "Cochinchine et Cambodge." Comprising twenty-six images of Indochina and twenty-one of Cambodia, the album includes fifteen views of the ruins of Angkor. The photographs were made by M. Gsell, a Frenchman stationed in Saigon, of whom nothing more is yet known except that in June 1866 he accompanied the naval captain Doudart de Lagrée on a scientific mission along the Mekong River. The mission began with a photographic survey of Angkor.Reports of an abandoned

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