Quote ***Apparently the French were reacting very negatively to reports regarding British atrocities in India (in 1857). The point is that the French were reacting in a similar way to the British decision to burn down the Yuanmingyuan three years later.*** Unquote The Times did not like the French interference and declared so editorially. Here is the editorial in : The Times, dated 20 Nov, 1857. p. 6, b (scanned image) http://ringmar.net/europeanfury/?p=1503 ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India