Vietnam: Paul Philastre (7 February 1837 - 11 September 1902), French colonial administrator, c. 1860s. Paul-Louis-Félix Philastre was a French colonial administrator, diplomat and scholar. Philastre graduated from the French naval academy in 1857 and took service on the Avalanche, arriving in Cochinchina in 1861. In 1863, Philastre was appointed inspector of native affairs in a village in the Mekong river delta and two years later he obtained the position of director of native legal affairs. In 1868, he became ill and was forced to return to France, though came back to Indochina in 1873.

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