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 NERFINISHED
appliesToTerritory Cochinchina
southern Vietnam
capital Saigon
colonialPower French Fourth Republic NERFINISHED
French Third Republic NERFINISHED
Second Empire of France
surface form: 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
surface form: Japanese coup d’état in French Indochina (1945)
endTime 1945
establishedByTreaty Treaty of Saigon (1862)
Treaty of Saigon (1867) NERFINISHED
facedOppositionFrom Vietnamese nationalists
communist organizations
peasant uprisings
governedByOffice Governor of Cochinchina ONDG
Lieutenant Governor of Cochinchina NERFINISHED
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 law
surface form: French civil law

separate indigenous legal codes
languageOfAdministration French
Vietnamese
legalForm French colony
partOf French Indochina NERFINISHED
promotedLanguage French language education
replaced Nguyen dynasty administration in southern Vietnam ONDG
restricted Vietnamese political activity
startTime 1862
subordinateTo French Ministry of Overseas France
surface form: French Ministry of Colonies

Governor-General of French Indochina NERFINISHED
succeededBy Government of North Vietnam
surface form: Viet Minh administration in southern Vietnam

postwar French Union authorities in Cochinchina
suppressed Vietnamese nationalist movements

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Hanoi Hilton originallyBuiltBy French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
this entity surface form: French colonial administration
Hanoi Ancient Citadel usedBy French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
this entity surface form: French colonial administration
Tong Khoi Nghia Thang Tam opposedBy French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
this entity surface form: French colonial authorities
Alfred Foulhoux employer French colonial authorities in Cochinchina
this entity surface form: French colonial administration in Cochinchina