French Indochina, a conquest along the water. Launched under the Second Empire in 1858 to oppose local resistance to English influence in the Far East.
The conquest of Indochine was promoted to the rank of civilizing mission by the Third Republic to justify colonial expansion. This article is taken from Le Figaro Histoire “French Ind Cochina, from the conquest to Diên Bien Phu”. Discover in this issue the history of France's Asian century.