La France et le Siam de 1662 à 1680

Abstract

Un concours fortuit de circonstances conduit au Siam, dès 1 662, Mgr Lambert de La Motte, puis Mgr Pallu, vicaires apostoliques. Bien accueillis par Phra Narai, souverain curieux et tolérant, ils ne tardèrent pas à se persuader que le roi était disposé à se convertir au christianisme. Cette illusion a donné naissance aux pires malentendus.

Lully in Siam: music and diplomacy in French-Siamese cultural exchanges, 1680-1690

“…The missionaries of the Société des Missions Étrangères apparently installed organs in their own churches for use in the liturgy (although they seem to have made relatively little use of European music in the process of evangelization and conversion, preferring to adapt to local customs); in 1714, Monseigneur de Cicé wrote to Paris about the church of St Joseph in Ayutthaya, commenting that 'we have an organ but need an organist to play it' . 100 Was this one of the three organs that had been brought by the Jesuits in 1687, or another instrument? At this stage there is no way of knowing, for lack of documentary evidence.…”