The present volume is an extended version of the author’s master’s thesis submitted to the Institut national de langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris in 2007. It sets out to reinterpret the Franco-Korean connections from the 1840s to the 1860s. As the author explains in the introduction, the historiography of early Franco-Korean relations suffered from a too narrow focus on the expedition of 1866 as well as on the role of Korean Catholicism. Moreover, the early relations between France and Korea were largely asymmetrical. Whereas Korea played only a minor role for France and the history of the early contacts between both countries is only known to a small community of French specialists, the situation is completely different for Korea. The author underlines the relevance of early Franco-Korean contacts for Koreans with a personal anecdote in the preface, when he recounts the first encounter with his future father-in-law in Daejeon in 2002. On this occasion, the latter accused the author of belonging to a nation that invaded Korea in 1866. The monograph is based on an impressive variety of hitherto unexploited documents from diverse countries, most importantly French diplomatic sources.

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ROUX, Pierre-Emmanuel, La Croix, la baleine et le canon。La France face à la Corée au milieu du XIXe siècle, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2012, 462 p.

本卷是作者于 2007 年提交给巴黎国家语言和东方文明研究所 (INALCO) 的硕士论文的扩展版本。它旨在重新解释 1840 年代至 1860 年代的法韩关系。正如作者在引言中所解释的那样，早期法韩关系的史学过于狭隘地关注 1866 年的远征以及韩国天主教的作用。此外，法国和韩国的早期关系在很大程度上是不对称的。韩国对法国的影响很小，两国早期接触的历史只有一小部分法国专家知道，而韩国的情况则完全不同。