Jean Dupuis (7 December 1829,

Saint-Just-la-Pendue Saint-Just-la-Pendue (; frp, Sant-Just-la-Pendua) is a commune in the Loire department in central France. Name The name of the commune dates from the 11th century and is recorded in the documents of Savigny Abbey, Rhône. The qualifying name '' ...

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– 28 November 1912,

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) was a French trader and explorer. In Vietnamese royal records, he was referred as ''Đồ Phổ Nghĩa''.

Biography

Dupuis was educated at

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(

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). In 1858 he went to

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as a trader, and from thence to

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. His trading journeys took him into many previously unexplored parts of southern China, and in 1871–2 his efforts opened up the Red River to commerce. In 1873 he was involved in a dispute with the Vietnamese authorities for trading weapons for goods on the Red River.Jean Dupuis
Il etait un Tonkin
forez-info.com, 22 février 2016. He was one of those people who persuaded the French to try and establish a base in Vietnam. The French explorer

Francis Garnier Marie Joseph François Garnier ( vi, Ngạc Nhi; 25 July 1839 – 21 December 1873) was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th ...

came down on the request of the governor of Cochin China to solve the dispute; Garnier invaded the Tonkin area and captured its capital, Hanoi. The foundations of the French possessions in

Tongking Tonkin, also spelled ''Tongkin'', ''Tonquin'' or ''Tongking'', is an exonym referring to the northern region of Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this term referred to the domain ''Đàng Ngoài'' under Trịnh lords' control, includi ...

were thereby laid and Dupuis did much to assist in the conquest of the country. Dupuis was in 1881 awarded the Delalande Guérineau prize by the Academy of Sciences in

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Works

His explorations are described in the following works: * ''L'ouverture du fleuve Rouge au commerce'' (1879) * ''Les origines de la question du Tong-kin'' (1896) * ''Le Tong-kin et l'intervention française'' (1898) * ''Le Tong-kin de 1872 à 1886'' (1910)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dupuis, Jean 1828 births 1912 deaths French non-fiction writers French explorers French male non-fiction writers