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“French Indochina, from the conquest to Diên Bien Phu”
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Nothing predestined these territories to the community of destiny that was theirs under French domination. Stretched over 1,650 km along the China Sea, the Empire of Annam was part of Chinese civilization: through the Taoism of the population, the Confucianism of the scholars, writing, as well as through a system of government identical to that of Mandarin China, where the administration of the country was entrusted to civil servants recruited through competitions based on knowledge of the classics, mastery of literary composition for the drafting of public documents, in no case that of the exact sciences or international realities ; by the Confucian conviction of its elites…
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