DOCUMENT. A4 notebook of approximately 56 sheets with black cloth cover bought in Hanoi and having belonged to sergeant D. BUTEL, illustrated with naive coloured pencil drawings consisting of a collection of songs, then the report of the colonel commanding the expeditionary corps (China) (Colonel de PÉLACOT), days of 11 to 14 July 1900 and 1901, entirely transcribed in pen by sergeant BUTEL, poems written by himself or authors such as Alphonse Daudet, Clovis Hugues, Jean Richepin, Jules Bois etc... wear to binding ABE Astonishing and rare document from a colonial non-commissioned officer in China.