INDOCHINA CARTACARO.COM A year ago, we promised to unveil Captain Péri’s rare photographs of the 1909 Battle of Yen Thé. Today, the wait is over! Over 80 never-before-seen images are now available.
Buddhist nun in Hué - Grandmother of Emperor Than Thai
Every collector has this card, whose title is “Bonzesse annamite de la cour de Hué”, a card edited by Victor Planté.
Bonzesse à Hué - Grand mère de l’empereur Than Thai
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But what many collectors don’t know is that it’s a cliché by Aurélien Pestel and depicts the Than Thai emperor’s grandmother.
We discovered it while leafing through old photo albums of Europeans living in Cochinchina around 1900. They would buy photos and stick them in albums, sometimes writing captions next to them, and on one of these albums we read the text “grandmother of Than Thai”.
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Insolite l.... Yes !
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