1847, Dong, a close friend of the King of Thailand, became the last king before Cambodia became a French protectorate. The king was born at the wrong time and had to work hard to find a way to revive the country under the powerful neighbors. As a king, Dong's life is as poor as his country. These palaces are all made of wood and thatch. Dong seldom wears a coat, but just surrounds a sand cage at the lower part. The only thing that can show the identity of the king is a gold belt with ruby buttons around the sand cage. The vanity of the fallen king is still quite strong. The dining table was covered with a bleached cloth, and the dish was given to the king by Singapore. Although the porcelain handle of the knife and fork is covered with gold foil, the steel part of the knife and fork is covered with rust.

Being down and out doesn't affect his pleasure at all. Dong Yisheng had 600 concubines, but these 600 concubines only left him 18 children.

Dong died on 1860, and his eldest son Norodom succeeded him. 1864 On June 20th, Norodom was crowned under the supervision of French and Siamese officials, and he ascended the throne in Phnom Penh on 1866. The following year, Siam officially recognized Cambodia as a protectorate of France. During Norodom's reign, France continuously strengthened its control over Cambodia, and Cambodia was completely colonized by France.

The French counterinsurgency led to the decision to make sisowath king. As a result, the Norodom family lost power. During the reign of sisowath, about 654.38+10,000 Cambodians were sent to the battlefield of World War I to work for France, and a prince even lost his mind in a foreign land.

1927 Monivan, son of sisowath, succeeded to the throne. During their reign, both father and son caught up with the world war and were accused of losing power and humiliating the country. It goes without saying that sisowath spilled the blood of 65,438+10,000 Cambodian boys and girls on foreign battlefields, while Monivan, a student of French Saint Makeson Military Academy and a French reserve brigade commander, could only watch 1/3 of his own land become Thai territory, and dared to speak out! 194 1 On the eve of Easter in April, King Monivan, who had been reviled for thousands of years, died in a seaside villa full of grievances. ...

Although the Japanese army invaded Cambodia as early as September 1940, the French colonial authorities still firmly controlled the Cambodian royal family. The French colonial authorities abandoned Monivan's two cowardly princes and chose norodom sihanouk, who was 18 years old, to inherit the throne.

But this time, the French can't see it. They thought that the young king who had been educated in France since childhood would be like his predecessors, but the young king ignored the "kindness" of the French and tried to get rid of French independence at the instigation of the Japanese, and finally ended the protective relationship between France and Cambodia. On August 1945, Japan was defeated and surrendered, and the French army returned to Cambodia. Although the Japanese army withdrew, Sihanouk's efforts to seek Cambodian national independence never stopped. France was finally forced to give in, and the French army withdrew from Cambodia in July 1954. 1959165438+1On October 9th, Cambodia gained its independence.