Fontainebleau Agreements
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Ho Chi Minh and Marius Moutet shaking hands after signing modus vivendi 1946 after the Fontainebleau Agreements
The Fontainebleau Agreements were a proposed arrangement between the France and the Vietminh, made in 1946 before the outbreak of the First Indochina War. The agreements affiliated Vietnam under the French Union.[1] At the meetings, Ho Chi Minh pushed for Vietnamese independence but the French would not agree to this proposal.[1]
When the Vietnamese government wrote a draft constitution without reference to the French, the latter attempted to regain control of French Indochina, contributing to the outbreak of the Indochina War.
See also[]
- Élysée Accords – 1949 agreement between France and Vietnam
References[]
- ^ a b Smith, Tony (1974). "The French Colonial Consensus and People's War, 1946-58". Journal of Contemporary History. 9 (4): 217–247. ISSN 0022-0094.
Categories:
- Southeast Asian history stubs
- First Indochina War
- 1946 in Vietnam