IndoChine Francais Vietnam Lucien Boucher

Original vintage rare poster for French Indochina featuring a pictorial map design by Lucien Boucher (1889-1971) - Indo Chine Francais - marking the main towns, cities, rivers and neighbouring countries, featuring various places of historical interest, people, jungle trees and animals in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China and Siam (now Thailand) including elephants, tigers, palaces and temples, modern ships and traditional junk boats at sea in full sail, a cobra snake, turtle, cattle farming and plantations, birds, the Mekong and other rivers, Angkor Wat and other overgrown ancient ruins and monuments, mountains and hills, a mythical sea creature and the Great Wall of China with lettering running horizontally in Chinese on the left and a compass point on the right, the title text in a decorative Asia style pagoda building below. French Indochina / Indochine Francaise was the colonial region of France in Southeast Asia from 1887-1954: Tonkin in north Vietnam, Annam in central Vietnam and Cochinchina in south Vietnam with Cambodia and Laos (from 1899) and Guangzhouwan on the south coast of China with the capital cities of Hanoi (1902-1945) and Saigon (1887-1902, 1945-1954). Issued by the Friends of Indochina - National Association for French Indochina / L'Association Nationale pour L'Indochine Francais. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, backed on linen.