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When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.

Credits

Romane BohringerSelf - Reader

Ann Laura StolerSelf- Anthropologist

Françoise VergèsSelf - Politologist

Alain RuscioSelf - Historian

Boulomsouk SvadphaiphaneSelf - Writer