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Fearing persecution by the communist government, hundreds of thousands fled to the south, including French-educated and speaking elite. Despite the Vietnam War erupting shortly afterwards, French continued a healthy presence in South Vietnam, where it was an administrative and educational language. [6] The sharpest decline of the French ...
The language began to decline after the French withdraw from Vietnam after the First Indochina War. After this lack of use, communist suppression of French, and warfare decreased the amount of speakers further with the last evidence of its use being between 1975 and 1980.
French Indochina was officially formed in October 1887 from Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina (which together form modern Vietnam) and the Kingdom of Cambodia following the Sino-French war (1884–1885). Jean Antoine Ernest Constans became the first Governor-General of French Indochina on 16 November 1887.
French defeat Vietnam is partitioned between North (controlled by the Viet Minh) and South (controlled by the State of Vietnam) Geneva Conference; Departure of the French from Indochina; State of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia achieve independence; Malagasy Uprising (1947–1948) Location: Madagascar France: MDRM: French victory
Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506792-4. "Ðiên Biên Phú – The "official and historical site" of the battle". Archived from the original on 5 December 2006; Fall, Bernard B. (1967). Hell in a Very Small Place. The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company.
French Indochina (1913) Vietnam was absorbed into French Indochina in stages between 1858 and 1887. Vietnamese nationalism grew until World War II, which provided a break in French control. Early Vietnamese resistance centered on the intellectual Phan Bội Châu. Châu looked to Japan, which had modernized and was one of the few Asian nations ...
Paris replaced them with General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, widely considered one of the greatest French commanders after his spectacular leadership of the French First Army in World War II. De Lattre came to Hanoi, Vietnam, on 17 December and assumed both military and political control of French Indochina. The French Far East Expeditionary ...
In the opinion of some authorities, this was a moment in which the U.S. might have averted the First Indochina War (and the later Vietnam War) had the U.S. told France bluntly to observe the 6 March agreement which recognized the Việt Minh as a legitimate government authority. [87] Socialist Léon Blum became premier of France. A few days ...