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Guy Tachard (1651–1712), also known as Père Tachard, was a French Jesuit missionary and mathematician of the 17th century, who was sent on two occasions to the Kingdom of Siam by Louis XIV. He was born in Marthon, near Angoulême. In 1680, Tachard went to the Caribbean (Antilles) with Jean II d'Estrées. Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch.〔(Gunn p. 188 )〕 ==First embassy to Siam (1685)== Tachard was sent in 1685 with five other Jesuits under Superior Jean de Fontaney, on a first French embassy to Siam led by Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy, and accompanied by Claude de Forbin. The objective of the Jesuits was to complete a scientific expedition to the Indies and China.〔(Colvin, p.237 )〕 Enticed by the Greek Constantine Phaulkon, he returned to France to suggest an alliance with the king of Siam Narai to Louis XIV. The five other Jesuits Fathers continued to China where they arrived in February 1688: Jean de Fontaney (1643–1710), Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730), Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707), Louis Le Comte (1655–1728) and Claude de Visdelou (1656–1737).〔''Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity: Clocks of Late Imperial China'' — page 182 by Catherine Pagani (2001) ()〕 The two ships of the embassy returned to France with a Siamese embassy on board, led by the Siamese ambassador Kosa Pan,〔Gunn, p.188〕 who was bringing a proposal for an eternal alliance between France and Siam. The embassy stayed in France from June 1686 to March 1687. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy Tachard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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