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LANESSAN, JEAN MARIE ANTOINE DE (1843 ) , French statesman and naturalist, was born at Sainte-Andre de Cubzac (Gironde) on the 13th of July 1843. He entered the navy in 1862, serving on the East
African
monument to the Communards; but after his election to the Chamber of Deputies for the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 1881 he gradually veered from the extreme Radical party to the Republican Union , and identified himself with the cause of colonial expansion. A government mission to the French colonies in 18861887, in connexion with the approaching Paris exhibition, gave him the opportunity of studying colonial questions, on which, after his return, he published three works: La Tunisie (Paris, 1887); L'Expansion coloniale de la France (ib., 1888), L'Indo-Chine frangaise (ib., 1889). In 1891 he was made civil and military governor of French Indo-China, where his administration, which involved him in open rupture with Admiral
Cambodia
great
powers
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