immersive exhibitions devoted to history are a success in France. With the VR headset screwed onto your skull, the straps of the backpack hiding the computer adjusted, you will have to face a vast parking area of 500 m².
The effect is striking. We forget the fixed features of passers-by, the avatars of other explorers. It's raining on the shiny cobblestones, on the roofs, and on the craftsmen's lodges leaning against the foothills. It is the 12th century, in the middle of the construction of the cathedral. Here we are in the 11th century. We are in France's Asian century. The history of French Indochina, from the conquest to Diên Bien Phu. Discover in this issue the history of France’s Asian century, which began in the 17th century and ended in the 1950s. This article is taken from Le Figaro Histoire, “French Indochine,” “From the conquest to Diên Bien Phu”.