L'Annam et le Cambodge, Voyages et récits historiques

Almost twenty years later, the indefatigable French missionary revisited the travelogue in which he had described Angkor a few decades before Henri Mouhot and John Thomson. In the meantime, several studies on Khmer art and the geography of Indochina had been published, and Bouillevaux referred to the works of James Fergusson or Francis Garnier (but not Mouhot's) in this expanded edition.

A expanded description of Angkor

"Au centre de ces galeries, et beaucoup plus élevée qu'elles, se dresse la forteresse de pierres, comme on l'appelle dans certains manuscrits, qu'est Angcor-vot. A chaque angle de ce gigantesque et splendide édifice se dresse une belle tour ayant la forme d'une tiare immense et magnifique. Au milieu se dresse une tour de la meme forme, mais plus haute que les autres: elle a 56 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la chaussée. De grandes galeries dont les murs sont décorés de de sculptures réunissent toutes ces tours. On monte a la pagode par quatre escaliers monumentaux. Cet edifice est bati presque entièrement en pierre de grès, admirablement fouillées par les artistes. Il faut dire cependant que ces habiles ouvriers n'entendaient rien a sculpter la figure humaine: leurs personnages sont presque toujours grotesques."(p132) ["In the center of these galleries, and much taller than the latter, rises the stone fortress as it is called in certain manuscripts, Angcor-vot. At each one of the corners of this vast and splendid building are beautiful towers in the form of a tiara. In the middle, another tower equally shaped, but much taller as it rises 56 meters above the level of the pathway. All towers are connected by great galleries decorated with sculptures. One reaches the pagoda through monumental stairways. The building is almost entirely made of sandstone blocks, admirably carved by the artists. However, one must say that the skillful workers were inept at sculpting the human shape, since all their figures are almost always grotesque." [the devout Catholic was apparently immune to the graceful charm of the Angkorean apsaras]]

Bouillevaux's map of Indochina