Adventurer Charles Francois Tombe stopped in Java in the early 19th century. The travel report of the 'French Marco Polo' to the continent of the Far East describes the beauty of the cities of Java. "There is a story of the exoticism of the ronggeng dance and Europeans living like kings in the Dutch East Indies," said Jean Rocher, author of the book Perang Napoleon di Jawa 1811.

The travel reports of Tombe became popular reading in the era of the em