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François Joyaux is professor emeritus of East Asian civilization at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations.
How was Indochina organized after the conquest?
It was when Paul Doumer was governor general of Indochina, from 1897 to 1902, that the establishment of the French colonial administration was truly completed: Laos, the last territory conquered in 1893, was included in 1899 in the Indochinese Union, itself then transformed into the Indochinese Federation, and the capital of the whole moved from Saigon to Hanoi in 1902. We were therefore, on that date, in the presence of five political-administrative entities: the colony of Cochinchina, in southern part of present-day Vietnam, Annam in the center and Tonkin in the north…
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