Site of the French Consulate

Site of the French Consulate

The former site of the French Consulate consists of two rectangular French buildings, built in 1896, with a floor height of 5 meters. The brick walls, stone floors, turnstiles and floors are all made of mahogany and covered with milled iron sheet. It is surrounded by a large arch with a 2-meter-wide corridor. Each building covers an area of 876 square meters, with a total area of 1752 square meters. The building is surrounded by tall camphor wood. It was the first foreign consulate in the area. The museum can be said to be the product of the Qing government's humiliation.

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It is located in Limin street, Longzhou Town, surrounded by residential buildings. The former site of the consulate was located at louyuanjiao on the West Bank of the river. The current site was Longzhou railway station on the Sino French joint venture railway from Longzhou to Tongdeng. After the railway was suspended due to a gauge dispute, the consulate moved in in 1908 It was not until August 1949 that all the railway stations were withdrawn.

After the Sino French war in 1885, China and France signed the Sino French Treaty on Vietnam in Tianjin, which opened up Longzhou as a commercial port. The Qing government allowed the French government to set up a consulate in Longzhou. In 1889, the French government sent Andy to Longzhou to set up a consulate. After many surveys, Andy believes that the langyuanjiao on the opposite bank of the South Gate of Longzhou is the confluence of the pinger River and the Shuikou river. Going up against the pinger River, you can reach Qixi (gentianea crassifolia) in Liangshan Province, Vietnam; going up against the Shuikou River, you can enter the Muammar River and reach Gaoping, the capital of Gaoping Province, Vietnam. In the rainy season, ships from Qixi or Gaoping downstream, a day can reach Longzhou. At that time, when the road was blocked, there was no doubt that lanyuanjiao was a convenient place for transportation, so Andy decided to build a museum in lanyuanjiao. After land acquisition and housing construction, the door plaque of "French Consulate in Yonglong" was hung and the office was opened.

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In 1890, Su Yuanchun began to expand the official road from Longzhou to zhennanguan. After five years, it was built into a road that could be connected with cars. From the South Bank of Longzhou to Tongdeng of Vietnam, it is only 58 km, which is more convenient and fast than sailing. In 1898, the French Consulate moved from langyuanjiao to Longzhou railway station, which was idle at that time. Built in 1896, Longzhou railway station is a supporting building for the construction of Tongdeng railway from Longzhou to Vietnam in France. After the signing of the Vietnam treaty between China and France, France began to build a railway in Beiqi, Vietnam, and planned to build a railway from Longzhou to Tongdeng, Vietnam on the border of Guangxi. It is said that due to the failure of the gauge negotiation, the railway was eventually suspended.

Longzhou railway station is two French two-story buildings with the same structure. The building is 5 meters high, 25.66 meters long and 15.2 meters wide, with an area of 780 square meters. The total area of the two buildings is 1560 square meters. The floor of the building is paved with stone slabs, the roof is covered with metal tiles, and the two revolving stairs and floors in the middle are refined with wood. There are 20 large arches around, and the arches are inward into a 2-meter-wide corridor. The whole building is solid and unique.

In 1913, the French Consulate once moved to Nanning, the capital of the province. However, because the provincial government had no foreign affairs agency, the Guangxi border flood control supervision office, a special diplomatic agency specialized in handling French affairs according to the Sino French treaty, was located in Longzhou. There were many inconveniences for the French consulate to handle business in Nanning. Soon, it still went back to the original site of Longzhou.

On February 1, 1930, the Communist Party of China led the Longzhou uprising. Consul Jiade colluded with the reactionaries at that time to subvert the revolutionary regime and was deported. After a period of time, France no longer sent consuls to Longzhou. In 1933, Li Pinxian, Guangxi's frontier and flood control supervisor, renovated the consulate, and France sent the consul to resume its operation until August 1949.

Address: Longzhou County, Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Longitude: 106.861492

Latitude: 22.334523

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