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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 Viet Minh, 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.

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  1. ^ a b Smith, Tony (1974). "The French Colonial Consensus and People's War, 1946-58". Journal of Contemporary History. 9 (4): 217–247. doi:10.1177/002200947400900410. ISSN 0022-0094. JSTOR 260298. S2CID 159883569.