An Audience with the Chevalier Ernest Thorn
Today we bow before the Chevalier Ernest Thorn (Moses Abraham Thorn, 1853-1928). The "Chevalier" was a genuine title, a French knighthood bestowed upon him by King Norodom I of Cambodia (the ability to confer such distinctions must have been one of the perks of presiding over what was then a French colony). Thorn, however, was […]