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The French protectorate of Laos (French: Protectorat français du Laos) was a French protectorate in Southeast Asia of what is today Laos between 1893 and 1953—with a brief interregnum as a Japanese puppet state in 1945—which constituted part of French Indochina.
The result was the Paknam Incident of 13 July 1893, the Franco-Siamese crisis and the ultimate recognition of French territorial claims in Laos. French warships bombarding the Siamese fort at Paknam Territories abandoned by Siam in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, depicted as a map of Thailand's territorial losses. The Franco-Siamese ...
French suzerainty: 1887 to 5 June 1894: Auguste Jean Marie Pavie, Vice-Consul: 5 June 1894 to April 1895: Auguste Jean Marie Pavie, Commissioner-General: 1 June 1895 to 30 April 1899: Marie Auguste Armand Tournier, Commandant-Superior of Bas-Laos: In Khong, Champasak: 1 June 1895 to 9 March 1897: Joseph Vacle, Interim Commandant-Superior of ...
The staunchly pro-French King Sisavang Vong was also imprisoned, and was forced by both the Japanese and Prince Phetsarath, into declaring the French protectorate over his kingdom ended, while entering the nation into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere on 8 April 1945. [4] Prince Phetsarath remained as Prime Minister in the new puppet ...
The Kingdom of Laos became a protectorate, initially placed under the Governor General of Indochina in Hanoi. Pavie, who almost single-handedly brought Laos under French rule, saw to the officialization in Hanoi. The French and British both had strong interests in controlling parts of Indochina.
The French Protectorate of Laos was officially established, with the administrative capital moved from Luang Prabang to Vientiane. However, Luang Prabang remained the seat of the royal family, whose power was reduced to figureheads while the actual power was transferred over to French officials including the vice consulate and Resident-General ...
Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie (31 May 1847 – 7 June 1925 [1]) was a French colonial civil servant, explorer and diplomat who was instrumental in establishing French control over Laos in the last two decades of the 19th century.
The vacuum of power allowed the French, now already controlled Cambodia and Cochinchina, to push north to the Mekong River, with hope of establishing a waterway to China. Vientiane eventually passed to French rule in 1893. It became the capital of the French protectorate of Laos in 1899.