Doudart de Lagrée, Ernest-Marc-Louis

Doudart de Lagrée, Ernest-Marc-Louis

▪ French explorer and diplomat
born March 31, 1823, Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze, Fr.
died March 12, 1868, T'ung-ch'uan, Yunnan Province, China

      French explorer and diplomat who secured French hegemony over Cambodia.

      Doudart de Lagrée entered the French Navy in 1845. In 1863 he became the first French representative to Cambodia, when he was sent from Saigon, in Vietnam, to Oudong to urge King Norodom (q.v.) to accept French protection. Cambodia was shared as a vassal by Siam and Vietnam, and the Siamese seemed ready to invade the country. Norodom's position was also threatened by his two half brothers, Sisowath (q.v.) and Si Votha. The former hesitated to make an open challenge, but the latter went into dissidence in 1860. As the French representative in Cambodia, Doudart gained Norodom's reluctant agreement to a treaty of protection in 1863, threatening to depose Norodom in the following year when the Cambodian king seemed ready to return himself to Siamese (Thai) protection. The French justified their actions in Cambodia by claiming to have succeeded to Vietnam's role as one of Cambodia's suzerains.

      Doudart became a commander in the French Navy in 1864 and was appointed French resident at Phnom Penh. In 1866 he led a geographic survey and exploration of the Mekong River into Laos and China. He died in northern Yunnan.

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