Jean Sainteny
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Jean Sainteny or Jean Roger (29 May 1907, in
Second World War in order to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces and to attempt to re-annex Vietnam into French Indochina.[1]
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Biography
The son-in-law of the
George Patton
the information that allowed the Allies to reach Paris.
He traveled to Hanoi on 22 August 1945 with American OSS officers, Archimedes Patti and Carleton B. Swift Jr. before being put under house arrest by the Japanese.[2][3][1]: 16–17
In 1946, he was sent by the French government to Vietnam to negotiate with
Geneva Accords, he returned to Hanoi
as a French envoy.
References
- ^ a b c Williams, Kenneth (2019). The US Air Force in Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War A Narrative Chronology Volume I: The Early Years through 1959 (PDF). Air Force History and Museums Program.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Interview with Carleton Swift, 1981, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-9dc948-interview-with-carleton-swift
- ^ Interview with Archimedes L. A. Patti, 1981, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-bf3262-interview-with-archimedes-l-a-patti-1981
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