Abstract
In the wake of the 1973 cease-fire accord, France has attempted to chart a new course for its relations with its former colonial subjects in Vietnam. The parameters of French policy in Southeast Asia in the decade ahead have been fixed by recent events, in particular by French policy during the four-year negotiations held in Paris to end American participation in the Vietnam conflict. As these talks lingered on, the French maintained a public posture of impartiality befitting their role as hosts. A changing scenario in Vietnam complicated French attempts to placate all the parties to the talks so as to permit the possibility of French participation in the negotiating process and in the future of Vietnam. It was only after the settlement was concluded (with only minor French participation) that the French, liberated from the confines of their role as hosts, indicated the new thrust of their policy in Vietnam. France's choices for the future can only be understood in light of the evolution of its policy which took place between 1968 and 1973.
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