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Even though Angkor was represented for the first time during the Parisian Universal Exhibition of 1867 with some plaster casts, we will focus here on the crucial event that took place exactly eleven years later: the Exposition universelle of 1878, which formed the real porte d’entrée for Angkor in France and, later, for the whole European continent. Surprisingly, the 1878 exhibition is rarely mentioned in scientific literature on the genesis of Angkor in France. This may have been down to the fact that the political, scientific, and disciplinary context of this major event is quite...
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