Jim,

I found two books of French map and military abbreviations in the Internet Archive:

A French-English military technical dictionary URL: https://archive.org/details/frenchenglishmil00willuoft

and List of conventional signs and abbreviations in use on French and German maps URL: https://archive.org/details/listofconvention00unitrich

Both give Mon and Cne separately. It appears to stand for Maison Cabane which would translate to house, home, household, family, official household or personal staff, and cabin or hut. Perhaps it is an outbuilding of a larger house where the staff lived?

Linda Zellmer

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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:49 AM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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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