French city honours Vietnamese for rice cultivation
The “Le Monde” newspaper of France on December 9 spent one page hailing the
Vietnamese for their contributions to rice growing and salt making in Camargue.
The “Le Monde” newspaper of France on December 9 spent one page hailing the
Vietnamese for their contributions to rice growing and salt making in Camargue.
About ten Vietnamese brought to France during the World War II were awarded medals by Arles Mayor Herve Schiavetti on December 10.
One of them is painter Le Ba Dang turning 90 years old this year, whose story is similar with tens of thousands of others immigrating into France in 1939.
Born into a farming family from the poor central region, Dang registered with France’s recruitment agency which was looking for labour from colonial countries. He was brought to Camargue of France to grow rice but extreme hardships forced the almost 20 year old boy to quit after three months of suffering. The young man left the southern region for Toulouse to attend evening classes at the Art College from 1943 to 1948. The farmer turned painter then made a living in Paris.
A total of some 500 Vietnamese people had been brought to Camargue to work at rice farms during WWII.
Le Monde stated those people had made decisive contributions to the rebound of the receding rice cultivation, which was introduced into Camargue in the middle of the 19 th century.
In addition to working in rice fields, almost 1,000 other Vietnamese were sent to Camargue to work on salt fields during the war.
Salt harvester Nguyen Trong Hoan recalled experiences in densely-populated camps where he and his mates survived a winter without fireplaces and laboured hard for meagre salaries.
The Le Monde unveiled the Arles city’s plan to turn an avenue or a square into a site that recognises contributions made by Vietnamese farmers from the countryside.
The newspaper mentioned a book titled “Forced Immigrants. Indochinese labourers in France , 1939-1952”, by Pierre Daum that portrays hardships suffered by an estimated 20,000 people from Indochina . The book will be published in Vietnamese./.
About ten Vietnamese brought to France during the World War II were awarded medals by Arles Mayor Herve Schiavetti on December 10.
One of them is painter Le Ba Dang turning 90 years old this year, whose story is similar with tens of thousands of others immigrating into France in 1939.
Born into a farming family from the poor central region, Dang registered with France’s recruitment agency which was looking for labour from colonial countries. He was brought to Camargue of France to grow rice but extreme hardships forced the almost 20 year old boy to quit after three months of suffering. The young man left the southern region for Toulouse to attend evening classes at the Art College from 1943 to 1948. The farmer turned painter then made a living in Paris.
A total of some 500 Vietnamese people had been brought to Camargue to work at rice farms during WWII.
Le Monde stated those people had made decisive contributions to the rebound of the receding rice cultivation, which was introduced into Camargue in the middle of the 19 th century.
In addition to working in rice fields, almost 1,000 other Vietnamese were sent to Camargue to work on salt fields during the war.
Salt harvester Nguyen Trong Hoan recalled experiences in densely-populated camps where he and his mates survived a winter without fireplaces and laboured hard for meagre salaries.
The Le Monde unveiled the Arles city’s plan to turn an avenue or a square into a site that recognises contributions made by Vietnamese farmers from the countryside.
The newspaper mentioned a book titled “Forced Immigrants. Indochinese labourers in France , 1939-1952”, by Pierre Daum that portrays hardships suffered by an estimated 20,000 people from Indochina . The book will be published in Vietnamese./.
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