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A procession of around 150 barges was arranged by the royal court of Ayutthaya to
receive the French embassy dispatched by King Louis XIV
The first royal barge procession in the reign of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great in 1957
consists of only 39 barges since several of them were damaged during the Second World War
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