L. Charles

L. Charles was a ​“capitaine au long cours” [master mariner] of the French Merchant Navy and a corresponding member of Société de Géographie commerciale de Bordeaux, created in 1874, who visited Cambodia and the court of King Norodom I as early as 1870. 

In addition of his account of Cambodia, we only know that he had navigated ​“the Chinese seas” since 1863, that he was involved in the first commercial steamer line between Bordeaux and New York, and that he operated in Central America countries.