Book Number: 2 638

Hutchinson, E.W.

1688 REVOLUTION IN SIAM

The 1688 Revolution in Siam ended the first European attempts to penetrate the Kingdom. King Narai of Siam, a sick man even before the outbreak, died two months later as a prisoner in his own palace at Lopburi, displaced, but nominally still king. The revolution was followed by the reversal of an unpopular foreign policy-dependence upon France, and at the same time, a severe rebuff was administered to King Louis XIV's advisers who aspired to subvert the national religion in Siam by attempting to convert the King to Roman Catholicism.

The Memoir by Father de Bèze, a Jesuit priest, was discovered in 1936 in the G.E. Morrison Library in Tokyo. It was written in response to a request by the author's religious superior for information, and relates vividly the events that occurred during the upheaval which involved the court, foreign powers, and the Greek adventurer, Constans Phaulkon.

(Bangkok 1990, reprint from 1968)

ISBN 974-8495-43-5

194 pp., 51 pp. illus., 135 x 210 mm, pbk.

13.50 US-Dollar

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