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인도-차이나와 19세기 프랑스 삽화 여행기

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2011, (24), pp.33~58
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

김은영 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

This present work intends to explore certain aspects pertaining to the French perception of Indo-China in the nineteenth century by examining French travel accounts of Indo-China from the period. That is, I investigate how the popular image of Indo-China was formed in nineteenth-century France. The paper is organized into two parts as follows. The first part traces the formation of travel accounts as a writing genre in modern France, reviews the historical importance of travel accounts of Indo-China, examines the vulgarization of travel accounts in nineteenth-century France, and analyzes the influence of the illustrated periodical Le Tour du monde(1860-1914), which means Around the World, on Indo-China image formation. The second part provides some specific examples of how Le Tour du monde played a significant role in the formation of an imaginary Indo-China by analyzing two illustrated accounts published by Le Tour du monde: Henri Mouhot’s(1863) and Francis Garnier’s(1870). In conclusion, Indo-China was an object to explore and conquer for the French in the nineteenth century as they attempted to define the region. That space was a world easily specified by the text and images printed on the pages of Le Tour du monde. Most importantly, the Angkor Wat that the French public ‘discovered’ in the nineteenth century through Le Tour du monde played a key role in inducing the French public to fantasize an imaginary Indo-China, which still resonates with the French to this day.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.