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OR the better understanding of the following Relation, I think it not amiss to acquaint the Reader, That the first Solemn Embassy that the French King sent to the late King of SIAM, was in the Year 1685, by Monsieur de Chaumont, who went in Quality of Ambassador Extraordinary, whereof there are two Relations publisht; One, of the Embassy done by the Ambassador himself; The other, of the Voyage done by Father Tachard, one of the six Jesuits that accompany'd Monsieur de Chaumont in that Voyage, by the French King's particular Command. Both are Translated into English, Illustrated with Sculptures, and Printed about two Years ago.

The second Embassy was performed in the Year 1687, when the SIAM Ambassadors that came into France the Year before with Monsieur de Chaumont, return'd back again into SIAM, by Messieurs de la Loubere and Ceberet, who carry'd over with them twelve French Jesuits, all Mathematicians, to teach the Christian Religion, an d the Mathematical Sciences in the two Royal Cities of SIAM and LOUVO, and a considerable Body of Officers and Soldiers that the French King sent to the King of'' SIAM. The Relation of this second Voyage is publisht only in French about six Months ago, by the same Father Tachard, who went back into SIAM with the SIAM Ambassadors, and return'd from Thence into France with the Character of the King of SIAM ' s Envoy Extradorinary to the French ''King, and to the Pope. He arrived at Paris in'' November, 1688. and had an Audience of the French King: And in January, 1689. he came to Rome, ''and had his Au- Rh