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“French Indochina, from the conquest to Diên Bien Phu”
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Indochina. A word loaded with imagination, whose very name is not easily defined. In 1811, the geographer Conrad Malte-Brun united under the term
Indo-China,
both from the point of view of languages and civilizations, all the countries located between India and China. Vague, the term succeeded the even vaguer term of
external India
or
transgangetic India.
In 1824, the Treaty of London split the Malay, continental and archipelagic world, creating two strictly demarcated entities.
To the north, on the peninsula, the Malay sultanates were attributed to the East India Company, which already controlled the Strait of Malacca and made Singapore the pivot of its influence between its possessions...
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