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China's 'southern disaster': France lays waste to a Qing fleet – The China Project

A French sneak in 1884 attack led to a fundamental misunderstanding of Qing technological prowess. It’s time to reexamine the popular — but simplistic, if not outright wrong — idea that China’s military losses to Europe (and, later, Japan) owed to its inability to modernize.
Prosper Giquel Benjamin Elman Fuzhou Navy Yard Fuzhou Naval Yard While Zuo Qing China

The former marine commando who's now a Trappist abbot

Photo by ARNAUD FINISTRE The Trappists at the Abbey of Notre-Dame dAcey in eastern France can now rely on more than just divine protection after the communitys recent abbatial election. The 28 monks last March elected Dom Godefroy Raguenet De Saint-Albin, a former marine commando, to be the spiritual father of their monastery, which is located about 35 miles east of Dijon heading towards the Swiss border. Abbot Goderfrey, who was born in Versailles in 1970, joined the Trappists some twenty year...
United States Ammar Moussa Mont Liban Franche Comtér Croix Christophe Henning Dom Godefroy Raguenet

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