Baloup’s five-part series, Vietnamese Memories, examines the political and socioeconomic foundations of contemporary overseas Vietnamese identity within varying national contexts. Two published books in Vietnam are Linh Tho: The Forced Immigrants and Chan Dang (Les Engagés de Nouvelle-Calédonie [The Volunteers of New Caledonia]).

Assessing the international significance of the Dien Bien Phu victory, French historian Alain Ruscio said that the event had a great influence on the decolonization movement in the world.

An exhibition of 150 art works and objects of exiled Vietnamese King Ham Nghi (1870-1947) is taking place at Nice Museum for Asian Arts in France.