LA COREE ET LES MISSIONNARIRES FRANCAIS.

Tours [1899?, Mame]. 3/4 Orange speckled cloth, over marbled boards, 368p., profusely illustrated with many full & text plates, very clean and solid copy, French text, with intro- introduction by Chasles Dallet. FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION This is a very rare and obscure book, it is divided into two parts: La Coree & Les Missionnaires Francais. * Part I: Addresses: Le pays, les productinos, les habitants; historie de la Coree; son etat de vasselage vis-a-vis de la Chine, origine des divers partis politiques; rois, princes du sang, eunuques, funerailles royales; gouvernement organisation civile et militaire, tribunaux, pretoriens, prisons, supplices; examens publics, grades et dignities, ecoles speciales; la langue Coreene; etat social, differentes classes, nolesse, peuple, esclaves; condition de femmes, mariage; famille, adoption, parente; religion, culte de ancetres, superstitions populaires; caracter des Coreens, leurs qualities, morales, leures defauts, leurs habitudes; jeux, comedies, fetes du nouvel an, le hoan-rap; logements, habillements, coutumes diverses; sciences, industrie and commerce. * Part II: Origine de l'eglise Coreeane, remier martyrs, Le Pere Jacques Tsiou [1794-1801], Columbe Kang [1901], Luthgarde Ni, vierge et martyre [1802], martyre du Pere Tsiou-lettre des catholiques Coreens au aper; en Coree un pauvre homme; un ecolier sans pareil-Mgr. Imbert, ses vertus; martyre de Mgr, Imbert et M.M. Chastan et Maubant; une famille de mart- yrs; voyage de Mgr. Ferreol et de Maistre en route pour la Coree; premiere intervention Francais en Coree, martyre du Pere Andre Kim; expedition Francaise en Coree, entree de M. Maistre; Mgr. Berneux et ses missionnaries, la guere Anglo- Francais en Chine, le terreurs de Coreens, nouveaux apotres; les Russes-arrestation et martyre de Mgr. Berneux, de MM. de Bretenieres, Beaulieu, Dorie; martyre de MM. Ourthie et Pet- itnicolas, de Mgr. Daveluy et ses compagnons [1866], MM Fer- on, Riodel, la persecution...and many others in this vein. * This is a very fascinating and interesting early resource on French missionary work in old Korea, due to the persecution and murder of many French missionaries and Korean converts, the French to launched an attack on the Koreans, just as it did a few years earlier in Tonkin and South China, the result were that France took land as is price. This work documents their early origins and sojourn in Korea, catholic missionary success, conversion of Koreans, martyrs and efforts to convert Koreans. * An exceptionally rare book, large size, 18 x 27 cm., very clean and solid copy. Books on this early chapter of foreign involvement in Korea are quite SCARCE ! * BINDING: The book to our knowledge was issued in two cloth variants: 3/4 orange speckled cloth over marbled boards and red pictorial cloth. Both are of equal value, and the contents remains identical. We continue to illustrated both photos on our website for reference purpose only. * BIBLIIOGRAPHY: This illusive work is not listed in any of the usual bibliographies including M. Courant: BIBLIOGRAPHIE COREENNE. * Cited in: International House of Japan Library: UNION CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON KOREA IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN...p.5. * OCLC locates only three copies. * .