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EVOLUTION OF STANDARDS CONCERNING THE EVALUATION OF PARLIAMENTS

I read with interest a news published on the ISU under the title "EVOLUTION OF STANDARDS CONCERNING THE EVALUATION OF PARLIAMENTS" .

Some 140 people (MPs, Secretaries General and parliamentary staff) (I do not know whether Tunisia was present or not?) Attended the October 22, 2009 in Geneva at a conference entitled Evaluating parliament: Objectives , methods, results and impact and compared their experiences in evaluating the work of Parliament. This conference was the third in a series of annual conferences organized by the IPU and the Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments (ASGP).

Overall participants agreed that parliaments should periodically evaluate their transparency, accessibility and effectiveness .

Participants highlighted the following problems, which are among the main obstacles to effective control in their parliament

• lack of trained personnel to assist the committees and parliamentarians, which could translate into more serious deficiencies human resources and material, or a lack of autonomy of Parliament in drafting its own budget and its workforce, or both,
• lack of time to ensure effective review, including the budget, and no prior notification from the Executive,
• late responses, inadequate or irrelevant to parliamentary questions,
• total lack of control of unelected public bodies and appointments Key to these organs.

The use of evaluation methods to identify problems is a first step toward defining targets for reform and consolidation of Parliament. In 2010, UNDP and the World Bank Institute held a conference that will focus on the next step, namely the pooling of lessons learned from parliamentary assessment and research of commonality in the definition of what should be a democratic parliament.

All this is beautiful. It is a beautiful blah you get used to hear and read. This is nothing new.

We sought gaps and answers in the texts of constitutions, RI, and various other organic laws relating to parliamentary action. Sometimes accused the administration of incompetence (and this is true in some kind).

But have we asked the question: What is a job of an MP? a parliamentarian?

Have we verified that the members understand their tasks and duties?

Do they know why come to the parliament?

Some members think that the parliament is a place for political debate (such a debate no longer exists). Worse is the placeholder for making policy.

While parliamentary action is political action by the strength of partisan framework governing parliamentary democracy .... But parliament is primarily a space to decide for the nation. It is this last figure that everyone (almost) unknown. Because if we focus the work of a parliamentarian on this truth, things will change.

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Official presentation of the Book of Emerald to the JCE Kortrijk

Hello,

the occasion JCI World Congress in Hammamet, Tunisia, the members of the Junior Chamber of Hauts-de- Seine, Robin Vincent, Sophie Marine and former members, Lionel Guillou and I have officially handed over to the Emerald Book 5 members of the JCE in Kortrijk on site.

The official presentation of the booklet was made at the Gala Club Med Hammamet Saturday, November 21, 2009.

Christine Delecluse.

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New parliamentary mandate: a new image will color the Chamber of Deputies

After the announcement of legislative elections that took place yesterday and the distribution of seats, one begins to provide a new image that will color the room for the first time in its history: the parliamentary groups.

After the amendment of the Rules of the Board July 9, 2009, we expect this year to see the formation of parliamentary groups that will certainly be another impetus to parliamentary work.

For comparison, the new European parliamentary experiences tend to articulate all the activity around the parliamentary caucus, which becomes the central axis of this work.

Certainly we will be far from this equivalence we have not seen such a tradition and it will be the first time test such a technique.

key success of this experiment will be inevitably the administrative backbone that will be assigned and not yet well defined.

According to results announced, the seats will be allocated as follows:

Number of seats: 214

RCD: 161 seats

MDS: 016

PUP: 012

UDU: 009

PSP: 008

PVP: 006

MT: 002

Pursuant to Article 3 of the RI, the representativeness of different parties will be as follows:

RCD: 75%

MDS: 7%

PUP 6%

UDU: 4%

PSL: 4%

PVP: 3%

MT: 1%

Thus , according to Article 28 trios only political parties, RCD, MDS and PUP, will be the conditions to form groups as they meet 5% or more.

Unlike other parliamentary experiences that allow different parties to unite to form parliamentary groups, Article 28 seems at first reading prohibit such a possibility since it requires that group members must belong to the same party.

At first reading, because Article 30 of the RI casts doubt seen as prohibiting a member to belong to two groups while allowing the possibility of not being part of any group. This paper suggests that the choice of group is linked to the will of Parliament which allows that a member can join a group PVP or MDS with MPs unite to form a group UDU.

Two other new experiences also come into our parliamentary experience: a coordination committee will be constituted and composed of a president, two vice presidents and the Group Chairs. In addition, the distribution of seats commissions will be made based on this representation.

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It is with great pleasure that Lionel and I announce that the 1000 copies of "l drunk Emerald are printed.

is the culmination of a journey that started in late 2005.
Fluoroscopy proposed by the senators noted that the JCE 92 did not know enough history and had no links with former members.

Through this commission, the JCE 92 discovered the quality and innovative actions undertaken by the former and was able to reconnect with them.

This communication is a great tool for recruiting new members to forge lasting relationships with public and private partners to promote and these actions to the citizens.

We rely on you (observers, former members) to leave "comments" on this blog so to share all your feelings about this book and its contents. It's a great opportunity to make a book electronically.

To read it in electronic format, follow this link: http://25ans.jce92.org/files/livretjuillet2009s.pdf
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Emerald Emerald soon available in print

Dear former members, members,

We are pleased to announce that this Friday, August 2, 2009, Philippe Guermeur, 2009 President of the JCE 92 Lionel Guillou Director of the "Commission booklet "met the printer to confirm the start of Book Printing Emerald.

Go late August for the final result.

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Emerald Book published on networks Social

Hello,

To meet the ever innovative communication of Junior Chamber International des Hauts de Seine, I am pleased to inform you that the Book Emerald is now aired on various social networks:
- the hub of JCE viadeo: http://www.viadeo.com/
- on groups of JCI Senator network www.linkedin.com/ ,
- the former group 92 of the JCE http://www.facebook.com/
- on twitter http://twitter.com/CDelecluse

A beautiful showcase of communication!

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Hello,

is with emotion and great joy that I am pleased to transmit the electronic version of the finalized Paper Emerald summarizing 40 years of the life of the Junior Chamber in the Hauts-de-Seine.

I want to thank you for your support and your own testimonials and / or answers to many questions that have enabled the realization of the booklet. Everything you have sent has arrived to this beautiful end result.

This booklet is the result of work over 4 years research, reading records, interviews with former and we can all be proud of both current members as former members.

Funding for printing is assured. With a budget of 2000 euros, the booklet will be printed in 1000 copies A5 size.

is a great development tool that will also facilitate the search for partners for ongoing activities but it is also a great information tool for young members.

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The Marquis de Moges: Memories of an embassy in 1857

Moges Alfred is famous for his travel to Japan, so he accompanied in 1858, the diplomatic mission of Baron Gros in this relatively forgotten empire of the West. The previous year he traveled to China and left a few pages on his way to Hong Kong.

Memories of an embassy in China and Japan "is the name of the book that the Marquis de Moges relates his journey of two years in the Far East. Published in 1860, this relationship is a journey relatively dry with few long descriptions. The Marquis is more fun to talk about the mundane and, thereby, to show his support for the regime of Napoleon III, which is a strong supporter. It also retains more passages that relate to Japan, because its mission, led by Baron Gros, led to the signing of the first Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between France and Japan.
China is nevertheless an important aspect of the mission and the resulting book ... and Hong Kong is a must. The Marquis de Moges arrived off the coast of the young British colony in October 1857 aboard the frigate "the Bold". The first stop on the embassy site in Macau to meet Minister of France Bourboulon, but signs of the decline of the Portuguese colony and time changes, most of the tour continues in Hong Kong.
The traveler attaches great importance to the protocol, the first impressions of the landscape are unimportant, however, he noted that immediately Baron Gros welcomed "the nineteen-gun by Admiral Seymour and a British frigate, a corvette and a corvette Dutch American. " It follows a long conference with Lord Elgin, his English counterpart, then a warm welcome and attentive Bowring of the governor. Again, the cannon friendlies are counted and the presence of the garrison at attention on the road to the residence of the governor are as much detail as the Marquis enjoys. Banquets and receptions follow each other: the social events are well underway.
During the five days of calls that follow, the diplomat started to crack a few comments. "We travel in all directions this wonderful array of English power in the Far East." After a brief history, the marquis confesses: "Fifteen years have sufficed for the colonizing genius of Great Britain to make this wonder and to make this place, unknown until then the busiest port in these seas." What is surprising more the observer, is the ubiquity of Chinese and Hindu personnel in connection with the lack of escort or protection of the British, while those nations are at war against England and the head of the governor is putting rates. We learn, however, that the East India Company finances part of the arsenal and the ships present in Hong Kong, where ...
Embassy attending a theatrical performance of "sing-song." "The show starts at eight o'clock in the morning and lasts until eight o'clock at night, without ever the stage remains empty for a moment. All kinds of heroes, geniuses, gods will take place, and thus engaged in fighting the most fabulous. Nothing beats the pantomime of Chinese actors and luxury costumes, all sparkling with gold and silk. "The music and tone are confusing, and once the surprise and curiosity past," the poor man lost in the European demand through locations and fled. "
A visit is made to the Fathers of the Foreign Missions and the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres. Marquis stresses are 4000 Catholics in Hong Kong and explains the ministry of missionaries sent across from the colony, with this amusing conclusion: "the poor, lost in the interior Asia, are in communication once a year with Europe and the civilized world. What a horrible kidnapping! "After visiting the college of missions on the mountain, Alfred Moges down to the" happy valley ", he learns that the name comes from three cemeteries all around. The racetrack is already serviced every day "as in English parks.
Other more serious matters at the same time animate the embassy. Baron Gros preparing an offensive against the "haughty viceroy of the two Kwangs" in Canton. This operation is conceived in consultation with the English who also want battle with their neighbor. The tricks are many and Hong Kong appears to be a platform for diplomacy in the Far East: the Marquis accurately scans the other embassies. He is suspicious of the Count Poutiatine, the Russian envoy, veteran of the Crimean War and is now protecting Russian interests in China. Reed is sent by the United States and has a warmer look, because its task is confined to the observation. It poses no threat to French interests.
At the end of his stay, Alfred Moges draws the necessary conclusions, "Hong Kong is future trade and movement, the city of Macao is quiet and the past. The time is past when the intrepid Portuguese sailors were the rulers of the seas. "

FD.

Sources and photo credits: Alfred Moges, Memories of an embassy in China and Japan in 1857 and 1858, Paris, Hachette, 1860.

Azémar Thanks to Yves and his inexhaustible library of old books on Asia, 89 Hollywood Road - Hong Kong.

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Andree Viollis reporter in Hong Kong

In 1931-1932, journalist Andree Viollis performs a series of reports on events drama that crosses the China occupation of Manchuria by the Japanese student riots calling for resistance, anti-Japanese boycott and political uncertainties within the Kuomintang. Although the British colony is away from the violence, the journalist does not feel less like other Western travelers, the Chinese community as a potential threat.

Figure famous committed journalism, Viollis Andree (1870-1950) investigated the USSR in 1927, the Afghan civil war in 1929 and published India against the British in 1930. In 1935 it will publish Indochine SOS, prefaced by André Malraux, to denounce the abuses of the colonial administration. Malraux sees Andree Viollis a representative of the "new journalism" whose purpose is no longer "[...] to search for characters, but things. Andree Viollis is now one of very few female senior reporters.
From December 1931 to March 1932, journalist "cover" the events in China for the Petit Parisien. En route to Shanghai, she arrived in Hong Kong at the end of the year: "So, I forget China, because it is a wonderful spectacle. Never more so than in the conquest of this rock England has shown its power and tenacious energy. Above, the city of pleasure with its white tiled palaces in parks, and below, the city labor and business. It piles up to a width of less than 600 meters from the base of the rock at the port, its monuments, its squares, lawns ensure the same sad statues of rulers in London, dressed in finery same bronze. It aligns along the streets and docks its banks, trading houses, shops with names proud, that sound the same throughout the Empire [...]. "
Unable to visit the shops closed on Saturday, she attended a movie. If the decor of the room surprised him by its luxury, it is especially sensitive to the separation between the two communities: "Families in crowds get inside it, press it, it loll: English families, fathers flourished , briar in the face of a ham, well planted on large yellow leather shoes, mothers lean and anxious, brooding look of sturdy children, hair straw hat in the club or school Chinese families, fathers to the long neck, displaying their belly in a long black dress or suit European, thin girls mannered, with bright hair short rouged cheeks and saffron, rolling in silk tunics clear gains closely ears to the hips; boys extraordinarily elegant, lacquered black heads, sober jackets and tortoiseshell glasses. All the world is ready and happy. The English groups exchange signs, Chinese groups interpellate. We talk, we joke, we laugh. But between English and Chinese, no contact, no mixing. Sitting side by side, they remain distant, impenetrable, grouped by blocks in this room that no current links. "
His evening is devoted to the Chinese city:" It is huge, bright and yet mysterious [...] These are sinkholes of blinding clarity, deafening and frightening tumult. All stores are open wide. Everywhere men leaning on the iron tap, carve or sawing wood, carried fabrics, cut or embroider leather. When do they sleep? They work, work tirelessly, night as day. [...] What a crowd! This is not the slippery softness of eastern India but people with strong shoulders, manly-looking, not at the farm. In the hard faces flat net, this is not the leak sly gaze Annamese the Annamite who sees himself as a slave, but a bold eye, sharp scans and you fathom you without fear or amenity. [...] Suddenly, a group is formed and grows around a freshly pasted poster: under large Chinese characters red, a drawing shows two small Japanese soldiers, one with a gun, the other with a bayonet, rushing to a giant Chinese shock that awaits them, despising law and its great curved in hand [... ] And I think that suddenly in this city of Hong Kong, they are a million of Chinese against a handful of Europeans who have come home. " As Marc
Chadourne, another famous journalist, who spends himself as Hong Kong in 1931 she perceives the Chinese community as a veiled threat that he recalls the words of a Chinese diplomat to the Peace Conference in 1919 " [...] Did you know that four men there is always a Chinese? Did you know that we are four hundred million, one quarter of humanity? Four hundred million in 1919, four hundred and fifty million today! These figures I saw then in an abstract way, how they seemed to me terrible eloquence that night, I was lost in the crowd stirred this city frightening tumult and splendor! "
This distrust, it does not feel it during a brief visit to Canton:" Like Hong Kong, cinemas, theaters, restaurants, peeps, music, clapping sound of wooden clogs on pavers. But yet, strangely, no animosity in looks and yet I do not encounter a single European. "
early January, she went to Shanghai and has witnessed the bloody battles of January-February between Chinese and Japanese troops around the chapei neighborhood. In mid-March, wanting to pursue its investigation of "reactions happened in Manchuria and Shanghai, she sailed for Japan.

DVR.

Sources: Viollis (Andre), "Shanghai and fate of China", Paris, Editions Correa, 1933. Credits: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de

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The Wang family combines film and Francophilia 50 years

Producer, supplier, distributor ... Salon Films touches all aspects of film in Hong Kong for almost 50 years. Its founder, TC Wang, and his two son, has another passion: French culture. And they never missed an opportunity to host French film shooting. Fred Wang back on these collaborations.

"My father was attracted to France, great country of art according to him," says Fred Wang. The word "lounge" inspired him a lot without knowing its exact meaning at the time. This resonated with the arts show in Paris, and referred him to many images it was classy. It is that it has selected French flair to create the name of his company. " Thus is born Salon Films in early 1959. "The first film he worked was The World of Suzie Wong". The film American Richard Quine, with William Holden and Nancy Kwan is very successful and can sit the little fledgling company.
The main activity of Salon Films is to provide equipment on movie sets. The company has also diversified into the production and distribution of cinematographic works. "We have always offered many services, technical or financial, for cinema," says the officer. And our collaborations with France have been many! "Starting with the company Pathe Overseas Georges Bigot, which we have already spoken. "We have known he had become a close friend. "
In 1974, Greetings from Hong Kong, the film Chariot is one of the first opportunities to shoot Franco-Hong Kong. Wang's brother Fred, Charles, was in charge of the case. "There was very strong cultural differences between French technicians and those from Hong Kong. There were often misunderstandings and implementation of the work was not always easy. " The stunts have resulted in some funny situations. "The French had requirements that the teams here were not ready, yet fun Fred Wang. Since then, our stunt is are much improved! "
Overall, the French were coming in very relaxed on set because" many laws allow them to rest and tranquility. Teams from Hong Kong, by contrast, have different benefits and should always be alert. " Fred Wang was not surprised by more than reason for these differences. "In 1965 I went to France as a student, he recalls. I did an internship at the ORTF long! I've had a great time! "
Charles Wang, his elder brother, followed very closely all records Filming French, facilitating the best possible achievement. He otherwise has been rewarded with the distinction of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. For the Guardian Angels in 1994, the team of Jean-Marie Poire sought in vain for a place to film. Charles Wang proposed the headquarters of Salon Films, on Devon Road in Kowloon Tong ... to serve as a backdrop to the film. "I also remember that the film Emmanuelle 2 [1975] gave us some problems in terms of technique: we had brought the U.S. All new cameras, took Fred Wang. It was the first When the French used them and they fell down. We had to schedule a repair at a distance by telephone with the U.S. ... in 1975, it was not so easy now! ".
And Fred Wang to evoke nostalgia and even all these years of relationships, Charlot Coluche (for Banzai 1983), until the most recent passage of Alain Delon. "We welcome Alain Delon during his vacation in 1997, he is famous in China for Zorro," says the entrepreneur. Moreover, during his visit, he has even been talk of remaking of this film! "The projects are numerous and show films Fred Wang is always busy. About a new collaboration with France? "Why not, obviously ... It is true that it's a little quieter in recent years, but we're always ready."

FD.

Sources and photo credits: thank you to Mr. Fred Wang for the time we spent, and the documents he has kindly placed at our disposal.

Photo captions, top to bottom: A, Wang brothers about their father, Charles and Fred left to right; B, Sylvia Kristel Emmanuelle on the set of 2 Hong Kong C, Alain Delon as it passes in the Wang family.

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Henry Litton, 50 years of French language in Hong Kong

lawyer acknowledged, Henry Litton is also an inveterate Francophile. He was president of the French Alliance in Hong Kong for fifteen years. Charming and discreet, it is up modestly over fifty years of passion for French culture and language.

Henry Litton was born into a family of Eurasian Hong Kong. He was educated in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. The first contact with France in 1958. "I was a student Law, and I went to the University of Grenoble for three months, recalls the lawyer. We were more in a beautiful house on the Route Napoleon [nickname of the national 85]. And confess: "It was more a stay to enjoy life in France and discover the country for study! It was winter, and I have excellent memories. "
Back in Hong Kong, Henry Litton built a successful career, first in private practice and serving the state. He does not forget his passion and joined the committee of the French Alliance in 1971. "The director at the time, Hudelot Francis, was a great friend, a sailing enthusiast like me, "said Henry Litton. He arrived in 1967 and organized the first network of the Alliance in Hong Kong. " The lawyer remembers a French Alliance still boiling. "The media students today were more active in the 1970s, there were frequent strikes and young French teachers who came were often radical left: it was stirred!" Is also a period of growth plan and the center is expanding with local Kowloon.
In October 1985, the judge becomes president French Alliance of Hong Kong, a position he held until 2000. Fifteen eventful years for the former British colony. "Since 1984, we knew that the handover would take place ... then came the time of Tiananmen, and so there was great social unrest and people were very worried." Canada offers so many opportunities for immigration. "Speaking French is a definite advantage in the records, and our numbers have grown considerably, therefore, surprised even the former president. We became the greatest French Alliance in the world by number students, with six centers and 12,000 registered each year ... "
Henry Litton then allowed these heavy burdens on others, but retained his passion for French culture:" I subscribe to magazines to follow the news, and I always have a book in French in progress .... " Latest, the historical saga of Fortune France Robert Merle. This passion for France was sent to the family: "My daughter was even married to a French! She now lives near Beziers, it gives me the opportunity to visit more of the country. "
For his work and investment for the radiation of the Francophonie, Henry Litton was made a Knight of the Order of Merit and in 1999, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Known jurist in Hong Kong and famous in his profession, Henry Litton is now honorary judge at the Court of Final Appeal and the court in question is located in the old building provides the Paris Foreign Missions, on Battery Path to Central. Francophonie can have the continuity of ideas ...

FD.

Sources: thanks to Mr. Henry Litton for his information and the time we spent; www.encyclopediefrancaise.com; French Alliance of Hong Kong.

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1844, the first man to French businessman in Hong Kong

Auguste Haussmann is a merchant from Alsace. In 1844 he joined the mission Lagrene which aims to build lasting relationships between China and France. His responsibilities include particularly the observation of potential outlets of French industry in the Middle Kingdom. During his visit to Hong Kong, it offers a nuanced approach to the future of the British colony.

With the first Opium War (1839-1842), Britain forced China to open up politically and economically. "Through his generosity secular politics offers few examples, and which for that very reason, must seem ambiguous, [England] had stipulated for the benefit of all nations." Auguste Haussmann is clear from the introduction to his Client: British altruism is doubtful, we must overcome it with China by establishing lasting relationships on behalf of the French government ... It is the purpose of the mission of the Minister Plenipotentiary Lagrene, in 1844.
Auguste Haussmann joined along the way members of the diplomatic corps. It is a businessman Alsace, sent by the Chamber of Commerce Mulhouse to handle the economic part and sing the French products. More specifically, it represents the textile industry in the region. His book "Journey to China, Cochin China, India and Malaysia is full of great rigor and differs from the writings of the time. It's more accurately reflect its mission to offer dreams and escape through an exotic story. The anecdotes and short descriptions were always meant to illustrate or prove the analysis of the commercial attache.
In February 1844, he embarked on "Archimedes" captained by Pâris. It is, for the record, the first French ship to steam at double the Cape of Good Hope. After many long calls, Haussmann arrived in Macao in August. With his colleagues, he exposes the products of French industry in Macao and Canton ... without much success. So a businessman somewhat disillusioned happens in Hong Kong, especially in the delta of the Pearl River, the ship has narrowly escaped an attack by pirates.
It seems quite reluctant to see what is positive about him and his description of the bay is quickly dispatched. No wonder the spectacle before him, but these remarks: "He [Hong Kong] blame [...] to leave some taken some wind to the northern part, and, cons, to be too cashed in the South by the mountains, which prevents the wind from southwest to come clean air during the hot season. "The expedition landed on the island and visit. "By penetrating into the interior, we find a sequence of barren hills and small valleys where grow some trees, tall grass and yams. Can be seen also, from time to time, rice watered by the numerous streams that descend from the mountains, and have been given to Hong Kong on behalf of many poetic too fragrant island streams. The general appearance of the country is sad, savage, and the surface very uneven. "
Auguste Haussmann notice some beautiful buildings in the small English town of Victoria, and stresses that" building seen in buildings, streets that s' fielded through neighborhoods that were already emerging, and names of principal officials of the colony, wide streets, airy, where one is almost in Europe in the middle of the Chinese. " The passenger seemed to be impressed as he discovers the center of Queen's road to the palace of the governor, but criticism gets over it quickly on the unhealthy climate and many fevers that decimated the population. More
length, the businessman stands the first inventory of the economic colony of French point of view. He explained that the nearby Chinese ports each month sends "a sixty large merchant vessels, who bring [Hong Kong] needed food to residents, and they return with a small shipment of long-cloths and other products European industry. "The salt trade is Haussmann important and said that it is "a highly lucrative monopoly for the government [Chinese], and it gave rise, for some time to smuggle more active. Junks which bring to Hong Kong, taking in return for opium and other items, which are sold in shops in the city of Victoria. The specialist then details what products come from a particular region and s inquires about the "great mystery" surrounding the trade with the cities of Shanghai and Kit-Yeo-Yeo. The Alsatian
note that trade of call is more important in Hong Kong. The British were therefore able make them indispensable and this port, a few years. This is important information for the mission Lagrene and businessman embarks enumerations of numbers to show how trade is vital to the British colony. It also analyzes the causes of this colonial settlement: the decline of Macau comes first because, for the French, "if [Macao] had been declared free port in time, the English probably would never have thought to go live Hong Kong "after the military effectiveness of the English and the Chinese administrative system deplorable, particularly the Customs. While
coldness, Auguste Haussmann paid scant attention to the attractiveness of the island and the spectacle of the colony. Contrary to recognize all travelers crossing after him, "this island is not populated enough or fertile enough, nor enough suitably located, in order to become an important market." The result gives a priori wrong, but it adds a useful clarification that makes him perhaps a clever vision. Hong Kong will not grow, "as long as Canton and the four northern ports will be opened to foreign ships." And so the tortured history of China was lucky of the British colony? That the assertions Haussman stating: "Today [Hong Kong] is, somehow, that the preservation of established European merchants in China, a place of refuge in times of war and a military establishment formidable, "but in the context of a quarrel of Sino-European, the French envoy already sees" the British possession change into a huge warehouse. "
As a balance sheet, the commercial attache finally acknowledges that" everywhere by the hand of man has triumphed over the rebellious nature. "And to finish on this positive note: "Hong Kong is the most beautiful monument of glory could ever set himself up England market and shipping!".

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Sources and photography: Auguste HAUSSMANN, Travel China, Cochin China, India and Malaysia, 3 volumes, 1848; Numa BROC, Illustrated Dictionary of French explorers of the nineteenth century, 1992. Azémar Thanks to Yves and his inexhaustible library of old books on Asia, 89 Hollywood Road - Hong Kong.

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1975: "Greetings from Hong Kong!

The Chariot in Hong Kong! As incongruous as it may seem, the four French comedians, true stars in the hexagon-1970s, have shot a film in the British colony. Nanar turnip or to taste, the result is an UFO film when Hong Kong is the party!

Queen of England was removed. Stir in the highest echelons of British rule, he must find her before the matter gets out only! The intelligence chief of His Majesty can not count on anyone since the death of his best agent, and he therefore called his French counterpart. The latter, annoyed at having to help put the perfidious Albion Chariot on the case. This is the beginning of a fantastic and clumsy parody of James Bond, including a generic in the purest style 70s. The turning away of absurd situations then originally intended to leave the field open to the antics of Charlie Chaplin.
The film is produced by Christian Fechner, a regular collaborations with the Chariot and comedy franchouillard. He was responsible for what its humorous productions, "The cabbage soup" and "grunts go to war," "The race for the shallot" and "Walking in the shade," but also "The wing or thigh" or "Grandpa is resisting": in other words monuments Film French popular culture of the years 70-80! He wrote the screenplay with Yvan Chiffre, hitherto Supporting Actor and stuntman, who is also entrusted his directorial debut. The director and the producer does not skimp on the means: car crashes (with the inevitable cascade of Remy Julienne), explosions, collapse of the house, shot in London, Paris, Madrid and Hong Kong, everything going to give breadth to this pastiche.
"Good kisses Hong Kong" offers even Mickey Rooney, a real star schoolboy humor across the Atlantic (and now one of the few surviving silent film, with its 322 films ...). The actor plays the role of the frenzied lover who takes the queen. The rest of the cast also includes some surprises in agent Leon Zitrone not very secret, André Pousse, Jacques Marin, Philippe Castelli French side. Jeanne Manson or the very "British" David Tomlinson ("Mary Poppins," "The fiendish Dr. Fu Manchu plot of" ...) are also present, without forgetting the amazing Victor Israel. Finally, Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell reprise their roles as M (the boss James Bond) and Miss Moneypenny, the time to make fun ...
Paul Clerc-Renaud, installed a long time in Hong Kong and now director of the group Fargo, visited the British colony during filming Film in 1975. "At that time, I was not working yet in connection with Pathe Overseas and Georges Bigot, recalls the businessman, but I came to Hong Kong for my company." Filming on site has not been easy, and "there were some twists that I never had the final word." Other sources tell that one of the Chinese partners was stabbed in the lobby of the Hilton or the young Chinese actress was allegedly abducted during a time by the mafia ... In stories where dark shadow of the plane Triads, but the French team has always been scrupulously kept away .
Filming continues for better or worse in Hong Kong, and delusional story continues. The Chariot found in a French maid, a lookalike of the Queen for the ideal replacement during his official visit to Hong Kong. They accompany him and the opportunity to walk the camera through the streets of Kowloon or near Aberdeen, at a time when he has not a single modern building where sampans still reign supreme. "For images of the official visit, there is a delightful anecdote!, Even welcomes Paul Clerc-Renaud. The company Pathe Overseas had made the pass for Pathé-News and filmed the actual visit to the real Queen, shortly before ... They have reused the images to incorporate the movie! ". Huguette Funfrock, the impersonator of Queen Lyon, does the rest ...
For scenes in Hong Kong, officiated as company Salon Films equipment supplier, under the patronage of Charles Wang Francophile. His brother, Fred adds, "it is rumored that the film was shown at the Queen Elizabeth. In any case, the administration of Buckingham had asked to have a copy, but there has never been back! "A film full of surprises until the end ... the very very end, when we learn in the generic Bézu (that of "single file" ...) was the press!
Rinaldi, Fechner (brother of producer), and Filipelli Sarrus seem to have had a good time there: "They were at the Mandarin ... again Paul Clerc-Renaud. With the troubles on the set, there was a period of relaxation. They were partying the night, and it was difficult to get out of bed! ". Jean Sarrus in his memoirs, reveals that the trip was mainly an opportunity to experience the legendary opium dens ... Fred Wang remembers: "The film has not been a big success in Hong Kong, but he been well received. " Today is a must nanar French movies of the 70s, and one of the few, perhaps the only, to have been turned away from France. And for lovers of Hong Kong is an unexpected visit by some strange guides.

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Sources: www.imdb.com; http://www.nanarland.com; www.lescharlots.com with thanks to Mr Paul Clerc-Renaud and Mr. Fred Wang, for the time they have dedicated and valuable information.

Credits: www.nanarland.com (French and German posters of the film); collection (the miniature airplane used during the final scene of the film is still prominently in the offices of the Hong Kong company Salon Films) .

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Léon Rousset, witness the typhoon of 1874

While in Hong Kong after six years in office to Foochow, China, Professor Leon Rousset witnesses a terrible typhoon in the British colony. It tells the dreadful night of 22 to 23 September 1874.

Léon Rousset is a professor of science. In 1868 he was appointed to the arsenal at Foochow, newly created by the French at the request of the Chinese government. There remain six years in office, but little trip around. Its mission complete, decorated with the title of "Mandarin 4th in blue button," he decides to walk more carefully this country who are passionate about. He spends the year 1874 in this journey, bringing valuable chronic detailed accounts ... and a sincere admiration for Chinese civilization. In September 1874 he arrived in Hong Kong, the last stop before returning to Europe.
On 26 September he wrote to his father: "At a time when I write, Hong Kong is entirely desolate. A terrible typhoon, as none of the oldest inhabitants of the colony remember ever having seen it hit the night of 22 to 23. "Léon Rousset then begins the story of the drama. The passenger reported that on the morning of 22, the liner of Maritime Messaging "Ava" arrived in the port of Hong Kong with beautiful weather. His crew said he had suffered a terrible storm after Saigon, but the counting of the trunk offers enough distraction so that no one cares more. The teacher spends his day at the library and, on leaving, meeting "a fresh wind a little, but nothing [of] alarming."
few experienced sailors to seek advice safest anchorages and at 18h, the sky is covered with black clouds. The wind blows, but again, nothing unusual for the season. Expected at most to a good storm and life goes on. "But at midnight I was awakened abruptly by a extraordinary sensation: it seemed to me like a boat move. "
" A soon as I opened my eyes as the sound of gusts that blow out quickly give me the key to the phenomenon. The wind was so strong that the house was swinging on its base, giving it a sort of rolling motion. " Léon Rousset described the storm damage noises around him, rage incredible gusts. "At each of its attacks, we heard the creaking of trees were broken, debris or plaster tiles blown off the roof rolled over and went crashing into the street with a loud noise. The house, shaken to its foundations, seemed raised by the storm, want to take off [...]. Finally, the distance came a thumping sound and continuous: it was the roaring of the sea "
Leo Wears Red and stands ready to evacuate the house at the slightest sign of collapse. The hours are long. "I forgot my own concerns to think with anxiety the suffering of the unfortunate who were currently at sea or in harbor." He went into a detailed description of the sinking he imagines. At 2:30, place the most violent gusts, which broke two of the public clock dials and stop the movement. Overcome by fatigue, dark passenger 4am to 7am to emerge into a scene of desolation. "I'll never hear the wind roar without remembering that awful night."
The roads are barely passable on foot, littered with debris of all kinds. And as Leon Rousset approaches the sea, the scene empire. Shipwrecks have been made by the raging sea more than fifty meters into the streets. "The whole shoreline was once lined with a quay wall constructed of large blocks of granite, bound together by iron hooks and resting on a bed of concrete over a meter thick. Behind this wall, there was a broad platform of seven to eight meters high by about a meter and a half meters above sea level, it was called the Praya. It was bordered on the other side houses the ground floor which were arches supported by pillars of masonry such as the Rue de Rivoli [...]. Well! After the typhoon, instead of Praya, we could see more than a sloping beach, littered with huge boulders, transported to the foot of the houses are the remains of the quay wall is currently missing . The waves themselves are coming to beat the house to a height of four feet. " Here and there, the masts of sunken ships still come out of the water, hundreds of junks leak ripped their loads and rare boats, stronger, remain afloat, but in a pitiful state. "On the other side of the Praya, several houses were completely collapsed, burying their inhabitants under the rubble."
"It's a disaster for the colony, and a few days after the disaster," the spectacle of Praya was [more] scary: no one could take two steps without encountering corpses that the sea came to deposit. "The people are immediately put to work to heal the wounds of the city. The French described a sullen population, working "silently to repair the harm." The living room of the teacher ends this tragic episode.
Léon Rousset is a member of the Geographical Society of Paris on his return. He multiplied the conferences and interventions on China, even providing a course on the subject at Free School of Political Science. With his experience and his passion, he advocated a rapprochement between France and China to counter the influence English or Russian. In 1878 she published her book "Through China", a kind of summary of his travels. The influence of the author on his contemporaries was great, and his vision for a lasting mark on China inquiring minds of France, particularly a Jules Verne inspired by his descriptions and quotes in "The tribulations of a Chinese in China "(1879).

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Sources and photo credits: Leon ROUSSET, Across China, Hachette, 1878; Numa BROC, Illustrated Dictionary of French explorers of the nineteenth century, 1992.
Thanks to Mr. Yves
Azémar and his inexhaustible library of old books on Asia, 89 Hollywood Road - Hong Kong.

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Vircondelet Father, 50 years of ministry in Hong Kong

From 1920 to 1970, Father Vircondelet of the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP) has seen Hong Kong evolve and deal with mixed fortunes at the option of a troubled history. His life in service of the Missions is also a life hong kongaise where the priesthood is confused with a passion for flawless British colony.

Vircondelet Leon was born in 1890 in Vesoul. At 18, he entered the seminary of Foreign Missions, but the Great War delayed its ordination. He was mobilized and was awarded the management of a hospital in the Vosges. In 1919, as lieutenant he resumed his place at the seminar. He is then ordained and sent immediately to Canton. The adventure begins Asia: a long journey east of fifty years, with Hong Kong as a point of attachment.
soon spotted for his many qualities of manager, was appointed missionary in the British colony in 1921 as an assistant prosecutor. It is a discreet but effective administrator. He began including at that time, to build a Chinese school and a hospital (St. Teresa) at the site of a large cotton mill bought by Father Robert.
In 1934, his temporary during a holiday in the procurement office in Saigon. He shows the extent of its capabilities, and a year later he was appointed Attorney General in the Far East. Leon Vircondelet is both the last Attorney General of Hong Kong MEP, from 1935, and the first Treasurer General, from 1950, the Foreign Missions reorganizing itself after the war about new features.
Formed by Father Robert (the excellent Financial who has done so grow the assets of Hong Kong MEP), Father Vircondelet manages address all matters of money until 1960. Not without difficulty, because the period is much more difficult. Japanese occupation, the rise of communism, a context of insecurity and instability ... so is he who arranges the sale of many properties in Hong Kong government, particularly the Procure in 1953 (now the Court of Final Appeal) and Nazareth in 1954. Choices certainly criticism today, but the context of the period explains.
is especially during the Second World War and the period the Japanese occupation, the Father Vircondelet illustrated. Always reactive, man committed early in favor of Free France without taking up arms. Exchanges between the Embassy of France in Beijing and the general government of Indochina are clear about this, and show that the Japanese complain of "active compromise of several French notables in the direction of the Anglo-Gaullist propaganda Hong Kong. " Father Vircondelet tops the list. The missionary
manages to safeguard the interests of religious, prevents looting (including printing of Nazareth) and helps many French. It seems that it is he who gets certain assets or records of individuals and companies (that is attested for the League of collieries of Tonkin and the Consulate of France). He maintains close friendships with Louis Reynaud, Consul General . A diplomat's death in 1943, Father Vircondelet install even in the consular premises so as to protect them from looting and to perpetuate a symbolic presence.
Many downtown buildings managed by the Missions were destroyed or damaged during the hostilities. The priest began in 1945 to renovate and modernize them. It then organizes celebrations for the centenary noticed the presence of Sisters of St. Paul in 1948. The same year he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor, for all its actions during the war.
Tired, he resigned in 1960. The Superior General Maurice Quéguiner expresses then, "on behalf of the entire company and on my behalf, the deep and loving appreciation of all, for all services rendered during a lifetime of missionary and singularly as General Treasurer for twenty-five years, with dedication and unfailing generosity. " It
again and again in Hong Kong that the Father Vircondelet chooses to spend an active retirement. There are still ten years. The priest left the British colony in 1970, after fifty years of presence. He retired to a sanatorium Montbeton in France, where he died in November 1973.

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Sources: Archives of the Paris Foreign Missions, Records of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Nantes. Photo credit: Archives of Foreign Missions of Paris.

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counterfeiting, a problem already in 1876!

fraudulent copying of luxury goods is not new! In a blatant news today, counterfeiting is already central to business concerns there are over 130 years. And Hong Kong, a traffic hub in Asia.
"Sir, you are aware that counterfeiting of French products abroad has taken in recent years, considerable development." This is how the Foreign Minister Louis Decazes open to all diplomatic posts, 23 March 1876. "This state of things, so damaging to our national industry, has, in part, because ignorance is the buyer of the true mark adopted by the manufacturer to help find the authenticity of its product. "
Branch Consulates and Corporate Affairs hopes to find a parade with the assistance "of various chambers of commerce and approval of Minister of Agriculture and Commerce." The idea is to "meet in a special record for the largest publicity, trademark French factories." This book is sent to all embassies and consulates to be made available to the public. All "the distinctive and authentic domestic products "are listed and the guide is expected to be expanded and reissued annually.
"By providing consumers the means to recognize the sincerity of the products delivered to them, it will help protect our industry against counterfeiting which is too often the victim abroad. It seems that this collection is not a panacea to the problem.
In October 1887, new letters are exchanged at this point, this time the British colony of Hong Kong is particularly concerned. The French authorities say it is a great center transit or manufacturing counterfeits in Asia. The subject recurs in the consular concerns, throughout the history of the position, and growth of the phenomenon is always stressed ...

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Sources: Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nantes.

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The ordinary life of a small French Hong Kong

Making history of the French community in Hong Kong for 160 years ... it is also interested in those who are there buffeted by parental wanderings. Children do not allow archives and institutions little interest in them. Testimony, both trivial and revealing of an era, can shed light on the daily life of a blonde head catapulted the Far East.

Following the publication of our article on history of the French school in Hong Kong , an email arrived saying essentially, "the little boy in the foreground of the photo ... it's me! . Mathieu Bringer spent four years in Hong Kong from 1980 to 1984. "My father worked for a Dutch company of textiles," he recalls. He led the central purchasing and we traveled a lot, to South Africa in the USA, etc.. Thus accustomed to expatriation, Matthew, his two brothers, sister and their parents, landed in the British colony in 1980. The boy is 7 years old and is enrolled in the French school, then located in the old military hospital in Borrett Road. Begins a new life hectic.
The family moved to Chung Hom Kok, near Repulse Bay. "I came back five years ago, it's crazy as everything has changed ... This is not so far away." And to tell the interminable bus ride to go at school, wasteland now become large properties. "I keep printing more accurate than memories. For example, I played every Saturday morning football on the Peak ... and I like our parties taking place in the mist over half of the year! "Mathieu still evokes typhoons and all taped windows of his house, or discussions of playgrounds on snakes from school: "There was woods all around the facility; obviously we were forbidden to go there ... and we were frightened with snakes that were supposed lapping in the vicinity. " The young man also remembers the Star Ferry trips to go in Judo, "with the strange machine that swallowed the pieces." Over 25 years later, some places are a must for children: "How could I forget Ocean Park! And the floating restaurant in Aberdeen, the rugby sevens tournament ... "
More accurate are the memories of the passage of the training ship of the French Navy, the Jeanne d'Arc . "My uncle was the second of the ship (it is now Vice-Admiral Teule). We had the right to a personal tour, says Matthew Bringer, and we ate in the officers' mess. You can imagine the effect on a kid of eight years! ". Another event remained in memory, an exceptional trip to China. "My parents have taken two years to get the visa. I remember very well tide of bikes and men in uniforms with the hats! ".
's father Mathew has invested in the life of the French community. "It was part of the executive committee of the school when the move to Jardines was being prepared." Bringer The family left Hong Kong before the establishment of effective change, but "my father says there was, for example, a whole debate about air conditioning. Paris refused this arrangement was considered a luxury, says Matthew Bringer. When a delegation from the Paris came to visit to assess the project, the Executive Committee has welcomed in a room without air conditioning! It was hot in high season, it was clammy incredible ... At the end of the meeting, everyone felt that the investment was necessary. "
After four years in Hong Kong, Matthew follows his family Belgium for a more sustainable facility. "I went to school between France and Belgium, said the young man. I trained as an engineer and I went on a PhD in astrophysics. " Asia has remained rooted in the mind of the boy he was. "I did my best to leave. It is no coincidence, then, I became VSN Hanoi! Says Matthew Bringer. It was also a great experience and I took care of scientific cooperation. "And the traveler to continue with a year off with a friend, to half a world tour from Hanoi to Paris on old Russian motorcycles.
"Now I am patent attorney, and in a few weeks I'm off to Shanghai for a new position. "For Matthew, this destination is not insignificant either. "I think my experience Hong Kong was really important analysis that was then a small child of 8 years. It was at an age where we discover our environment more carefully, where it is more receptive ... and I am forever marked by the discovery of Hong Kong! Although they are very diffuse, I have fantastic memories and impressions. "

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Sources : Thanks to Mr. Matthew Bringer for his valuable testimony. Photo credits: private archives.

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1932, the consul's plea for a Consulate General in Hong Kong!

The demand for higher consulate in Hong Kong consulate to consulate general is recurrent from the beginning of the century. In 1932, the consul sets out a detailed argument, full of information on the status of the colony and the French presence at the time.
The transformation of a diplomatic consulate to consulate general is never a decision taken lightly, and it is always a case closely followed by the States concerned. The country that decides to initiate such a representation shows his interest for the city and its willingness to develop relations, the host sees a mark of recognition ... There is also a personal interest and financial support for the consul assigned to such a function. The fees are higher at a consulate general and career perspective, it is better for a consul-general to get a job rather than just a namesake consulate.
Dufaure Georges de la Prade is in this case, in 1932. The diplomat of fifty years, an alumnus of the School of Oriental Languages live, hold positions in the area for 27 years. It began as a student interpreter in Seoul, and climbed the ladder slowly but surely the diplomatic service: Canton, Hoi-How, Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy, Canton and again. It is the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1923 and was appointed Consul General Oct. 25, 1930. On this occasion, he was sent to Hong Kong, but this post is a consulate ... and it does not touch all the benefits of its new administrative grade. One of his
predecessors, Ernest-Gaston Liebert (stayed 15 years in office between 1901 and 1916) had increased the processing demands of the position, in vain. Georges de la Prade Dufaure soon also to split a long letter, addressed "the minister of France in China", the equivalent of ambassador before diplomatic relations are normalized with that country. To justify the importance of his position, he provides a valuable inventory of the colony, the French community and the interests of France.
Rising position required "first because of the importance of the British colony Hong Kong economically and politically. " The consul general describes at length with force figures, the advantages of the island. Strategic naval base, commercial hub, the political center, everything goes to give Hong Kong its importance. The diplomat, is known lover of poetry, often mixes some theatrics at its consular prose, he shows by example that Hong Kong is a land of asylum "is the haven of choice, also welcoming the ships only survivors political storms raging on the neighboring territory more often than typhoons on the seas of China in response to a past bright future and duller, dullest only because a solar eclipse temporarily obscures the whole sky, already ajar, on the horizon, bright and limitless, the prospects for a future beyond compare. "
Dufaure La Prade is also a relevant analyst. His vision of the future of Hong Kong is disturbing news, "As soon as the global crisis is over, and as and as China becomes available barriers [...], and advised that the Chinese and foreign traders, there will fix , free of abuses and disorders, their business headquarters, Hong Kong will play a decidedly preponderant in the Far East. " Moreover, it is already at the time of the 5th trading port in the world. And the consul of price increases in this regard: "his rival, New York, Hamburg, Antwerp, London, and smaller ports such as Trieste and Alexandria all have French consulates general."
interests of France are many and deserve to be better defended the diplomat said. From a demographic standpoint, it shows that ignoring the Chinese and English who are at home, the French are behind the fourth community Japanese, Portuguese and Americans, "with 227 people over 78 Annamites."
Regarding business, "we are the only ones with the Japanese, Dutch and Americans to own credit institutions." And cite the bank and the bank Indochina Sino-French industry. "The Bank of Indochina was able secure a position of first order since it is the 4th largest bank [...] immediately after the three British banks of the square." Two shipping lines are installed and there are many links with Indochina, giving France the third largest in trade flows, and a 1 / 10 of total global trade transactions.
"In the moral point of view, the French influence is exercised" through a long list of institutions. "A hospital known to the public only under the name of French hospital" is at the top of the list. Boarding school, orphanage, various works of the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres, provides general of the Foreign Missions (with its printing and sanatorium), College of the Brothers of Christian Doctrine ... Everything is then reviewed. The consul also boasts "a lending library of books [...] in Consulate offices with nearly 3,000 volumes. "
Dufaure La Prade emphasizes an important fact. The Consulate in Hong Kong is an interface between the colonized Indochina, China is full boil and the base of the British presence in the region. Samples of the products of the colony are distributed in Hong Kong through the consulate, Annamites revolutionary exiles are monitored, etc..
To drive the point home, the consul part in a series of general comments. "All the great nations, but Germany and France have here consulates general," and he adds that the consuls-general are more highly regarded and treated by the colonial authorities, "they enjoy greater support than simple consuls. And then, "here, in transit, officials [...] of eminent persons that the consul would welcome a position worthy of the name. The financial problem is finally addressed with the reception and holding the rank "since, in all likelihood, the SPA would be slightly relieved."
Despite these justifications, the Dufaure Prade leaves office in 1934 without winning a due to the British colony. He transferred to Milan, and became minister plenipotentiary before being sent Kabul where he ended his career. Before the Second World War, the position has not changed its name. In the current research, it is assumed that the return of the French diplomatic presence in Hong Kong in 1946, during the transition from consulate to consulate general.

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Sources: Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nantes.

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«First Vision of China "Victor Segalen

From 1909 to 1913, Victor Segalen made the first of his three visits to China. Party to perfect his knowledge of Chinese language, he took the opportunity he dreamed of settling in the country in January 1911 by accepting a professorship at the School of Medicine Tiensin. He never returned to France in July 1913.

April 25, 1909, Victor Segalen embarked at Marseilles for China aboard the "Sydney". He leaves his wife in France, Yvonne ("Mavone") and their son Yvon, born in 1906, who will join later. Since 1908, Segalen started learning Chinese, and his examination of student-interpreter of the Navy, received a nomination in China for advanced study in Chinese language. Throughout the voyage, he sent numerous letters Mavone mixing prints, descriptions and tips for his upcoming trip. The "Sydney" landed in Hong Kong May 25, at night under "torrents of water." The very next day, his wife Segalen address a long letter in which he mentions his meeting with Mr Jasson, French postmaster at Hankow, which ensures the regularity of the jobs in the country, where he expressed his wonder at this first contact with China:
"Hong Kong is a splendid thing. First View of China because these lofty mountains, elegant lines and Noble, draped in green bush veiled breasts sometimes mid-hills of the shadows of clouds, this is the land of China, despite the English possession. I confess, however, that these owners have fired a splendid party. Check
absurd in the night. Clouds, clouds and rain on the coast. My dinner companion and stop, the young Spaniard in Manila, my driver kindly. But what "scenic!" The word, banal, is best placed in the world. Heights, amphitheaters alleys, nations, shops, green wet masses, signs, colors, sun and clouds in the English ingenuity. Inevitable ascent funicular Peak. But overlooking a sea of mist only. The sampans are
family homes floating. While moving their passenger ship to land, they engaged in the most diverse social occupations, except one that would increase an already overflowing: the father, front, pulls on a rowing scull and women in government the back, and hanging on his own back at her, a baby asleep last movement it does to push the boat. Between the two, man and woman, a whole brood of the diameter of Yvon, which some sleeping, others are rowing, sailing or lead, or eat or ... or fight. These are good people day and night of pretty pirates. They have, until recently lost more than one passenger or more than one boat on which they embarked as passengers, and they gave some filaments twisting the English. Even now, we do not set sail at night in one of these sampans without a Hindu policeman takes the issue: to find the culprits then, in case of damage to the passenger, or even drowning caused enough ... Check
to 4 pm Beauty of the pass of the East. Like a beautiful ripe fruit which is lovingly palp outlines, our walk around slowly but surely the wake of a distant globular China which I'll squeeze the juice so greedily! "
arrived in Beijing on June 12, Segalen is waiting until early July Auguste Gilbert de Voisins, his expedition companion. Both left the capital on August 9 for a big trip in western China. They arrive in Chengdu on December 6 and are welcomed by the Consul General of France, Pierre Bons d'Anty. After going down the Yangtze River, they reached Shanghai January 28, 1910. In early February, and Segalen Neighbors set sail for Japan and visit Nagasaky, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. February 27, Return to Hong Kong, Victor Segalen Mavone found there and Yvon.

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Sources: Segalen (Victor), Letters of China. Paris, Plon, 1967; Segalen (Victor), Oeuvres completes, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1995, Victor Segalen, Paris, Les Cahiers de l'Herne, 1998;
Dumasy (Jacques), France and Sichuan, a look centenary Chengdu, Consulate General of France, 2007. Photo Credits: Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris; http://www.patrimoine.combrit-saintemarine.fr