Inspired by the Story of a Doyen
Jean Rocher succeeded in researching the forgotten battle of Jatinegara. Java was important in the eyes of Napoleon, at the same time it triggered political intrigue.
November 2, 2011
A dinner invitation arrived near the beginning of Jean Rocher's term of serving as Defense Attache at the French Embassy in Indonesia. The invitation was from Jacques Bailly an esteemed elder in the expatriate community of this wine country. He was a doyen, a term of respect, pronounced 'duayan.'
The banker who had lived in Indonesia since the 1950s reported many local bank customers whose names sounded French. "Physically, they are like Europeans,"
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