[HIGHLIGHTS] To leave or to stay: what did the French think at the time of the Indochina War?

On May 7, 1954, the Battle of Diên Bien Phu triggered the fall of the French colonial empire on the Indochinese peninsula. The Indochina War, which caused more than 500,000 victims, fascinated the French at the time.

For more than seven years, the inhabitants of the metropolis lived to the rhythm of the fighting and were torn over the meaning and direction of this war. Ifop looks back on nine years of opinion surveys, brought together in the publication “Ifop Collectors’”. The results of the surveys were published in Le Figaro, Le Monde, Ifop and Ifop Collector’s. The surveys were carried out from 1945 to 1954, for the 60th anniversary of the battle of Di Bien Phu, on May 7, 1954. The answers to the questions: Did the French want to continue the war, negotiate or abandon Indochine? The results were published by Le Moteur, Le Journal du Dimanche, Le Nouvel Observateur, La Figaro and IfOP Collectors.