French colonial authorities in Cochinchina

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French colonial authorities in Cochinchina were the French imperial administrators who controlled and governed the southern region of Vietnam during the period of French Indochina.

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instanceOf French imperial authority
colonial administration
administrativeCenter Saigon
appliesToTerritory Cochinchina
southern Vietnam
capital Saigon
colonialPower French Fourth Republic
French Third Republic
Second French Empire
controlledInstitution colonial army units in Cochinchina
colonial courts
colonial police
colonial school system
customs administration
country France
endedAsResultOf Japanese coup d’état in French Indochina (1945)
endTime 1945
establishedByTreaty Treaty of Saigon (1862)
Treaty of Saigon (1867)
facedOppositionFrom Vietnamese nationalists
communist organizations
peasant uprisings
governedByOffice Governor of Cochinchina
Lieutenant Governor of Cochinchina
implementedPolicy alcohol monopoly
corvée labor system
direct rule
economic exploitation
indirect taxation
land concessions to French settlers
mission civilisatrice
opium monopoly
rice export economy
rubber plantation development
salt monopoly
introducedLegalSystem French civil law
linked to: French law

separate indigenous legal codes
languageOfAdministration French
Vietnamese
legalForm French colony
partOf French Indochina
promotedLanguage French language education
replaced Nguyen dynasty administration in southern Vietnam
restricted Vietnamese political activity
startTime 1862
subordinateTo French Ministry of Colonies
Governor-General of French Indochina
succeededBy Viet Minh administration in southern Vietnam
postwar French Union authorities in Cochinchina
suppressed Vietnamese nationalist movements

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Gia Định Province governedBy French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
Hanoi Hilton originallyBuiltBy French colonial administration
linked to: French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
Hanoi Ancient Citadel usedBy French colonial administration
linked to: French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
Tong Khoi Nghia Thang Tam opposedBy French colonial authorities
linked to: French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
Alfred Foulhoux employer French colonial administration in Cochinchina
linked to: French colonial authorities in Cochinchina