Du_Royaume_de_Siam
Du royaume de Siam, translated into English as A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, is a travel record of a French diplomatic mission to Siam written by Simon de la Loubère and published in 1691. It extensively describes the Ayutthaya Kingdom at the end of reign of King Narai in 1687, and is among the most important Western sources in the historiography of Ayutthaya.
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Although La Loubère only stayed in Ayutthaya for 3 months and 6 days, the record is based on the compilation and research of books written by westerners who had come to Ayutthaya before such as Jeremias van Vliet who came to Ayutthaya in the early reign of King Prasat Thong, however, the observations of modern historians see that, some of the content in this document some of the stories are inaccurate some are recorded from inquiries from without knowledge people some are heard from statements that are true and some are not true some are speculated by the author or misrepresented.[citation needed]