The Second French Empire in Japan, 1858-1871: An ephemeral success?
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Contrary to a common idea defended by a certain historiography, the adventure of the Second French Empire in Japan was not a total failure. If the circumstances of the Meiji Restoration explain the rupture experienced by French diplomacy at the end of the period, some ten years of diplomatic relations – conducted with great ambition by the time of Léon Roches (1864-1868) – were enough to make Second French Empire a real architect of the modernization of the new Japan.
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