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Pierre-Paul de La Grandière

1807–1876 · 19th century

Pierre-Paul de La Grandière was a French admiral and governor of Cochinchina from 1863 to 1868. He organised the administration of the three eastern provinces ceded by the Treaty of Saigon in 1862, brought Cambodia under French protection in 1863, and in 1867 seized the three western provinces of the Mekong delta, completing the colony of French Cochinchina.

Pierre-Paul de La Grandière
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French Cochinchina

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