The Story Behind ‘Mi Soc’: A Cambodian Woman in a 19th-Century Colonial Photograph
PARIS, Oct. 1, 2026 — A 19th-century photograph of a Cambodian woman, long identified in some collections as a “Siamese woman” or simply an anonymous Cambodian figure, has been given a more personal identity through historical research and family oral history. In his Lettre sur le Cambodge, published in Paris







