Jean Sainteny

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1907 – 1978

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Who was Jean Sainteny?

Jean Sainteny or Jean Roger was a French politician who was sent to Vietnam after the end of the Second World War in order to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces and to attempt to reincorporate Vietnam into French Indochina. He traveled to Hanoi on August 22, 1945 with American OSS officers, Archimedes Patti and Carleton B. Swift Jr. before being put under house arrest by the Japanese.

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Born
May 29, 1907
France
Died
Feb 25, 1978

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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