#10 – 10 Things you (probably) didn’t know about China at the Treaty of Versailles

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Lou Tseng-tsiang (Lu Zhengxiang),who officially led the Chinese delegation to Paris, subsequently left the diplomatic service and became titular abbot of the Abbey of St. Peter in Ghent and met Tintin creator Hergé….Betrayal in Paris now on Amazon UK and Amazon US….

In the 1930s Lou, a long time Catholic, was based at a monastery in Loppen and became friendly with a young man by the name of George Remi, better known to the world as the cartoonist Hergé, the creator of Tintin. These early contacts by Hergé with Lou, and some other Chinese, meant Hergé developed a deep interest in China. See, Harry Thompson, Tintin: Hergé and his Creation, (London: John Murray, 2011).