ABSTRACT
Vietnam was far from the forefront of the French public mind. This state of affairs was upset, however, in the first months of 1930, when a fresh outbreak of rebellion in Indochina and its echo in Paris brought all of the various questions about Vietnam's relationship to France closer to the surface of French popular concern than at any time in the interwar period. The immediate catalyst for the reopening of the Indochina question was the emergence of the radical Vietnamese Nationalist party, known as the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang. Perhaps the most striking reflection of the effect of Yen-Bay and the student demonstrations on the French polity took place in the French Chamber of Deputies over four days in June 1930: there the Indochina problem received its fullest airing of the interwar period. By the time the Vietnamese student movement in France had lost its force, there had grown a broader constituency for anticolonialism among the French populace.
