Leon Roches
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Leon Roches (1809 - 1901) is a representative of the French government in Japan from 1864 to 1868.

The French government took the side of the Tokugawa Bakufu and thus was not real popular in Japan after the Meiji Restoration.

The article is originally from OpenHistory.

The original article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Roches.
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