The Ho–Sainteny agreement, officially the Accord Between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, known in Vietnamese as Hiệp định sơ bộ Pháp-Việt, was an agreement made on 6 March 1946, between Ho Chi Minh, a de facto communist and the President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Jean Sainteny, Special Envoy of France. It recognized Vietnam as a "Free State" (without Cochinchina) within the French Union, and permitted France to continue stationing troops in North Vietnam.[1] The agreement broke down with the beginning of the First Indochina War between the two countries on 19 December 1946. France would form the State of Vietnam as an independent associated state to replace the communist DRV on 8 March 1949.
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edit- ^ Howard Zinn, ed., "Accord Between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 6 March 1946," in The Pentagon Papers, by Mike Gravel, Gravel, vol. 1 (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971), 18–19, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/int2.htm Archived 2021-01-25 at the Wayback Machine.
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