Michael Smithies Author, Editor & Translator

Dirk Van der Cruysse of the Royal Academy of Belgium is professor of French culture and literature at the University of Antwerp. He is author of Siam and the West, 1500–1700. Michael Smithies, former editor of the Journal of the Siam Society, is the author of numerous books and articles on the French involvement in Siam in the 17th century.