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The story of the decisive battle of the Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh. The latter, which took place from March 13 to May 7, 1954 and took place in what is now Vietnam, ended the conflict before the Geneva Accords. Because the French army was then composed only of professionals, unlike the Algerian War that followed, this battle is little remembered. With: Michel de Jaeghere, editor-in-chief of Le Figaro special edition Patrick de Gmeline, military historian