Open letter to His Excellency the French Ambassador 

I am sure you already know the answer: since I do not have the honour of being one of the privileged members of your entourage, I did not want this letter to be thrown in the wastebasket by one of your faithful secretaries before you even knew of its existence.
In March, you invited some 600 guests to a grand celebration marking 160 years of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Thailand and the French Republic. The original treaty was negotiated and signed by King Mongkut of Siam and the French diplomatic envoy Baron de Montigny .
But on that occasion you did not even think of inviting one of the oldest Frenchmen in Siam, who served his country in a disinterested way, never looking for financial reward nor honorary distinctions. (Emperor Napoleon the First used to say that medals were necessary toys for grown adults.)
I was in charge of the largest feature-films library in Asia from 1968 to 1994, which loaned out films to 13 countries, from Nepal and Sri Lanka to Taiwan and Indonesia – 724 films in 1994 alone. My film reviews were published every week in the Bangkok Post from 1968 to 1975.
Also, from 1968 to 1975, the French Embassy asked me to represent France at the SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organisation) and assign postgraduate scholarships to citizens of country members.
From 1986 to 1994, the French Foreign Office selected me as one of seven delegates representing all French agents under contract in all 193 nations, meeting in Paris at least once a year to try to resolve any social problems encountered by those agents.
The aim of this open letter is to let you know how humiliated and indignant I felt, as an old servant of France, to be rewarded with a total lack of consideration, treated like dead wood and judged not worthy of even the minimal gratitude signified by inclusion among your 600 guests. 
I am and remain your disgusted compatriot,
Michel Muscadier
Bangkok