The Silk and the Cannon

In October, 1700, Amphitrite, first French ship to trade with China, returns to Nantes with to its edge of the exotic unknown products as chinas... A real taste for China, its objects and its culture is then born.

The Ogaden War is going to make tip over the economic balance of power and precipitate the decline of the Empire of the Middle. The exhibition investigates the evolution of the glance concerned this Far East so distant as fascinating by leaning on the presentation of prestigious objects.

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