[Tax-chick]

Nonsense. Many people from Francophone Africa lived in Paris in the 1890s, as did people from Indochina.

[dfwgator]

Nonsense. Many people from Francophone Africa lived in Paris in the 1890s, as did people from Indochina.

Ho Chi Minh lived in Paris in the early 1900s, even became a founding member of the French Communist Party.

[Bonemaker]

I don’t think the situation was quite as grave back then as it is now,..do you? And the French weren’t shy about using the guillotine.