Rare photos of Vietnam under French rule
These are illustration pictures in a French book titled “L'Indochine Profonde” (Mysterious Indochina) by J. P. Dannaud, published in 1962.
These pictures were taken by French photographers like Raoul Coutard, Jean Lhuissier, Kim Khánh, Pierre Ferrari, Guy Defive, etc. at different places in Indochina before 1954.
| A bustling street in Hanoi |
| There were two bridges to Ngoc Son Temple. The bridge on the left was the current The Huc bridge |
| A soybean pudding peddler |
| Tooth whitening service on the street |
| Many Hanoi residents came from neighbouring rural areas |
| A Catholic man and his small statues |
| Playing cards on the pavement. This game was imported into Vietnam from France |
| Consulting a fortune-seller outside a temple |
| Kids practise boxing, which was also imported from France |
| A fisherman |
| Fish sauce jars |
| A boat race |
| The flood season in the Mekong Delta |
| A girl from a noble ethnic Mong family in northern Vietnam |
| Mong women on an opium field |
| Mong people also planted rice and maize |
| A Mong kid |