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    Earlier Canton postmarks read "Canton / Chine" whereas later cancels include a code letter from A to F to show at which branch of the Canton office they...
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    de chine A fine, lightweight silk, cotton, or worsted, with a plain weave and crêpe-twist filling. Crêpe de chine travers A ribbed crêpe de chine with...
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    Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River...
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    Soyinfo Center. ISBN 9781928914440. Louis Dermigny, La Chine et l'Occident: le commerce à Canton au XVIIIe siècle, 1719–1833. Paris: SEVPEN, 1964. Downs...
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    Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tek-hòe hûi), more traditionally known in the West as Blanc de Chine (French for "White from China"), is a type of white Chinese porcelain, made...
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  • France 2008: Atom Space Gallery, Canton, Chine 2008: Galerie Princesse de Kiev, Nice, France 2008: Art64 Gallery, Canton, Chine 2008: Artexpo with la galerie...
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  • North-China Herald. Trade of Canton for the Year 1903, London: Foreign Office, 1904, OL 7032895M Claudius Madrolle (c. 1904). "Canton". Chine du Sud (in French)...
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    Connexions. Le Magazine de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française en Chine (29). CCIFC: 52–53. September 2005. Archived from the original on 2 March...
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    Canton or Cantonese porcelain is the characteristic style of ceramic ware decorated in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong and (prior to 1842) the sole...
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    to release the rest. The next day, British gunboats shelled the city of Canton. The British government decided to seek redress from China and dispatched...
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    de l'Indochine (French: [bɑ̃k də lɛ̃dɔʃin]), originally Banque de l'Indo-Chine ("Bank of Indochina"), was a bank created in 1875 in Paris to finance French...
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    28 March 2011. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1775). "Le geai de la Chine à bec rouge". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 5. Paris:...
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  • d'Hauteserre : "Je suis très fière de mes origines, française et chinoise" », Chine-info.com, 05 avril 2017". Archived from the original on 2018-11-30. Retrieved...
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    de Chine et d'ailleurs, 1835–1860, Paris, Les Indes Savants (2005) ISBN 2-84654-084-5 Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet, et la Chine pendant...
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  • Greenland Company British East India Company Casa da Índia Compagnie de Chine Compagnie de Saint-Christophe Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique Compagnie...
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  • The Canton Coolie Corps was a British Army logistics unit raised in 1860 for service in the latter part of the Second Opium War. The unit was recruited...
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    around 1800, Canton decorated porcelain with its figures and birds, flowers and insects. Many other types of decoration such as encre de chine or Jesuit...
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    16 (5): 8–11. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1775). "Le rolle de la Chine". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 5. Paris: De L'Imprimerie...
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    Columba chinensis. Scopoli based his account on "La tourterelle gris de la Chine" that had been described and illustrated in 1782 by the French naturalist...
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    publication "Sketches of China and the Chinese", published in 1842. His book "La Chine ouverte" was illustrated with fine woodcut engravings. A major Salon of...
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    de la Chine" that had been described in 1782 by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat. The type location has been restricted to Guangzhou (Canton). The...
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    arrival by some hunters, he eventually set himself up a hermit in the Ranft chine in Switzerland, establishing a chantry for a priest from his own funds so...
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    these export wares were Jingdezhen porcelain decorated in Canton, and are known as "Canton famille rose". Porcelains with famille rose palette were also...
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    1163/9789004472839_010. ISBN 978-90-04-47282-2. "Un pratique liturgique propre à la Chine: Le Tsikin 祭巾 ou bonnet de messe". Bulletin Catholique de Pekin (PDF) (in...
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  • account of the voyage, Voyage autour du Monde par les Mers de l'Inde et de la Chine, was published by the French government in 1833. In 1837, Laplace once again...
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  • la foi, volume 7, 1834 Tremblay, Jean-Marie (February 2, 2005). "chine ancienne, chine antique, civilisation chinoise: Père Évariste HUC (1813-1860), Souvenirs...
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    géographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise published by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde in Paris...
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    Chine" that had been described and illustrated in 1782 by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat in his book Voyage aux Indes orientales et a la Chine...
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    2000 Ready-to-Wear: Miu Miu", Vogue, 2000. Eceiza, Laura (2009), "Blanc de Chine", Atlas of Fashion Designers, Beverly: Rockport Publishers, pp. 107–111...
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    Railway Trial. In: The Chines Times. Tientsin, 27 November 1886. Cited by P.A. Crush on page 6. Le premier chemin de fer français en Chine. In: A l’occasion...
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