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Boris Vian - Le déserteur
Le déserteur is a famous anti-war song written by Boris Vian and released on May 7, 1954 during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
It was first sung by Marcel Mouloudji, in 1954. Subsequently, it was forbidden by the French censorship to be sold or broadcasted until 1962. The song is in the form of a letter written to the French President by a man who states that he’s going to refuse his call to arms, turning deserter, and explains his reasons to do so.
La conférence de Trung Gia (Tonkin), le 4 juillet 1954.Description : Pour la première fois dans la guerre d’Indochine, un gendarme français et un soldat de l’APVN (Armée Populaire du Viêtnam) côte à côte, lors de la conférence de Trung Gia (Tonkin).For the first time a French gendarme and a Vietnamese soldier on the same side during the Trung Gia conference.
Negotiations between France and the Việt Minh started in Geneva in April 1954 at the Geneva Conference, during which time the French Union and the Việt Minh were fighting a battle at Dien Bien Phu. In France, Pierre Mendès-France, opponent of the war since 1950, had been invested as Prime Minister on June 17, 1954, on a promise to put an end to the war, reaching a ceasefire in four months.
The Geneva Conference on July 21, 1954, recognized the 17th parallel as a “provisional military demarcation line” temporarily dividing the country into two zones, Communist North Vietnam and pro-Western South Vietnam.
In parallel, the Trung Gia conference was set to discuss the application of the Geneval Conference decisions, principally about the exchange of prisonners.
Funeral Oration of Gia Long to Pigneau de Behaine (8th of December 1799)
Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau (2 November 1741 Origny-en-Thiérache – 9 October 1799, Qui Nhơn), commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine, also Pierre Pigneaux and Bá Đa Lộc (百多祿 or 伯多祿), was a French Catholic priest best known for his role in assisting Nguyễn Ánh (later Emperor Gia Long) to establish the Nguyễn Dynasty in Vietnam after the Tây Sơn rebellion.
Bataille de Diên Biên Phu, 13 - 17 mars 1954.Description : Lors de la bataille de Diên Biên Phu, deux soldats regagnent un abri lors d’un bombardement.Date : Mars 1954Lieu : Indochine / Tonkin / Diên Biên PhuPhotographe : Camus Daniel / Péraud JeanOrigine : SCA - ECPADRéférence : NVN-54-40-R57
The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was the confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated on the 7th of May in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva.
Urbanisme rectiligne imaginé par le gouverneur Lemyre de Vilers dans les années 1870-1880.
En rouge, les principaux bâtiments construits pendant la période coloniale : palais du gouverneur, caserne, poste, cathédrale, halles, régie de l’opium, maisons d’import-export…
Voir des photos d’époque sur le site : http://belleindochine.free.fr/Saigon1882.htm
Capitale de la Cochinchine à partir de 1859, elle devint capitale de la République sud-vietnamienne en 1956 et fut rebaptisée Ho Chi Minh-Ville en 1975.
Cholon, le quartier chinois au sud-ouest, à 5 kms, est encore nettement à l’écart du centre-ville encadré par la rivière et ses canaux.
Conquered by France in 1859, Saigon (currently Ho Chi Minh City) was influenced by the French during their colonial occupation of Vietnam, and a number of classical Western-style buildings and French villas in the city reflect this. Saigon had, in 1929, a population of 123,890, including 12,100 French
