French Indochina

Map of French Indochina

French Indochina was a region that consists of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. It became part of the French colonial empire in the late 19th century. The Japanese Empire conquered it in the Second World War, and other wars went on for decades.

French Indochina Media

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  Vietnamese-style seal of the Government-General of French Indochina

• La Marseillaise, hymne national français interprété par Fédor Chaliapine (1873-1938) entre 1911 et 1914.

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  Expansion of French Indochina (violet)

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  Siamese Army troops in the disputed territory of Laos in 1893

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  The Presidential Palace, in Hanoi, built between 1900 and 1906 to house the governor-general of Indochina

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  Occupation of Trat by French troops in 1904.

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  A report by the Viện cơ mật on the financial and military aid given by the Nguyễn dynasty to Great France in the year Khải Định 2 (1917). Note how the document ends with the phrases Đại Pháp vạn tuế, Đông Dương vạn tuế (大法萬歲, 東洋萬歲).

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  A 1920 report by the Sûreté générale indochinoise on Nguyễn Tất Thành (阮必誠), who would later be known as Hồ Chí Minh (胡志明).