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on two French ships. The embassy was bringing a proposal for an eternal alliance between France and Siam. It remained in France from June 1686 to March 1687. Kosa Pan was accompanied by two other
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in Thai. Kosa Pan's great interest in French maps and images was noted in a contemporary issue of the
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