Laos: The King of Champasak visiting a French expedition at their camp on the banks of the Mekong. Engraving by Louis Delaporte (1842-1925), 1867. The Kingdom of Champasak (1713-1946) was a kingdom in southern Laos that broke away from the Lan Xang kingdom in 1713. The Kingdom of Champasak prospered at the beginning the 18th century, but it was reduced to a vassal state of Siam before the century had passed. Under French rule the kingdom became an administrative block with its royalty stripped of many of its privileges. The Kingdom of Champasak was subsumed into the Kingdom of Laos in 1946.

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