![]() ![]() ![]() Out of fewer than 17 million inhabitants, around 93,000 Indochinese volunteer soldiers and workers, mostly Vietnamese, went to work in the factories on the home front, or to fight on the battlefronts in France and the Balkans. Indochina, the so-called “Pearl of the French Empire”, was known as the only fully self-financed and zero-cost colony for the metropolitan budget, and significantly contributed to the Great War effort in terms of both funds and products, and military and labor forces.
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