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Keelung French Cemetery
Keelung French Cemetery, Chilung, Taiwan Phone: Not AvailableAbout
Keelung French Cemetery, a remnant of the Sino-French War of 1884-85, is about 2 km from the train station, but still very close to the harbor. The French cemetery is the subject of a new book by Christophe Rouil titled Formosa: Some Nearly-Forgotten Battles, which took the author a year and a half to research and write. The French-language edition will be launched at the end of this month. English and Chinese-language versions will appear next year. With the help of the Social Affairs Bureau, Rouil collected information from the archives of the French armed forces and diplomatic corps, and visited Makung in the Penghu Islands, where the leader of the French expedition, Admiral Amedee Courbet, died of a tropical disease in June 1885.
