Les relations entre la france et la peninsule indochinoise aux xviie et xviiie siecles

The relationship between france and indochina during the 17th and 18th centuries

• Auteur / Autrice : Frédéric Mantienne
• Direction : Thế Anh Nguyễn
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Histoire
• Date : Soutenance en 1998
• Etablissement(s) : Paris, EPHE

Résumé

Des courants politiques, religieux et commerciaux entrainent la france vers l'asie tardivement, dans le dernier tiers du xviie siecle. Les implantations politiques (siam) et commerciales (siam, tonkin) francaises dans la peninsule indochinoise sont provoquees par les missionnaires, et seront des echecs. Au xviiie siecle, des raisons essentiellement strategiques (rivalite avec l'angleterre) poussent les francais a s'interesser a la birmanie et a la cochinchine. L'absence de moyens militaires et financiers, la faiblesse commerciale de la france dans l'ensemble de l'asie condamnent par avance ces tentatives. L'episode de l'eveque d'adran au vietnam est un episode vietnamien, et non francais. Durant ces deux derniers siecles, malgre les recuperations de la ''geste coloniale'', il n'y eut pas de veritable presence francaise dans la peninsule indochinoise aux xviie et xviiie siecles.

Various political, religious and commercial trends bring france in asia lately, during the last three decades of the 17th century. Political implantation in siam, commercial efforts in siam and tonkin are caused by the french missionaries, and fail. During the 18th century, it is mainly strategy (rivalty with england) which is pushing france in burma and cochinchina. The lack of military and financial ressources and the weakness of french trade in the whole of asia are condemning in advance these efforts. The story of bishop of adran in vietnam must be considered as part of vietnamese history, not of the french one. During these two centuries, and despite the efforts of the colonial interests to lately take advantage of it, there was no real french presence in indochina during the 17th and 18th centuries.