Dear Jim,
On behalf of my colleague, prof. dr F.J. Ormeling: he suggests that this might be short for ‘Maison de Commune’ e.g. something like town hall, supposing that (the environment of) Saigon consists of quite a few
suburbs, villages or ‘dessa’s’ - that (in those days) all had their own town hall etc.
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Subject: Question from Vietnam historian re abbreviation on 1895 French map of Saigon
A Web friend & Vietnam historian,
Manh Hai, has aggregated over 87,000 photos of his homeland on Flickr. He asks:
“On the 1895 map 'Plan des Environs de Saigon' in my map collection, there are many places indicated by the abbreviation Mon Cne - the on and ne are raised and underlined.
At first I thought it might be something like 'Maison Caserne' for a type of guard house, but that doesn't seem to make sense since there are so many of them in so many places. Later I guessed Cne may stands for cabane, but I'm not sure.”
Can anyone please offer some assistance?
Thank you.
Jim
James Speed Hensinger
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